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| Effects of a health advocacy, counselling and activation programme on depressive symptoms in older coronary heart disease patients | | Author(s) | Marika Salminen, Raimo Isoaho, Tero Vählberg |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 20, no 6, June 2005 |
| Pages | pp 552-558 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Advocacy ; Advisory services [elderly] ; Heart disease ; Exercise ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Longitudinal surveys ; Finland. |
| Annotation | A health advocacy, counselling and activation programme aimed at increasing knowledge about coronary heart disease (CHD) and social activities, contacts, roles, support and performing light exercises reduced depressive symptoms among older Finnish male CHD patients suffering from a moderate or high amount of depressive symptoms. Primary health services, social services and voluntary organisations should develop and implement interventions including educational, physical and psychosocial activities for older chronically ill and disabled individuals with different physical diseases in order to get evidence-based data for treating older people with minor depression in primary care. The study was based on patients aged 65+ with CHD from the longitudinal epidemiological Lieto study in Finland in 1998-1999. 116 were randomly assigned to an intervention group and 106 to a control group. Changes in depressive symptoms were measured by the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale (ZSDS). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050620203 A |
| Classmark | IQ: IT: CQH: CEA: ENR: CT: 3J: 76L |
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