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Gender-specific and gender-sensitive associations with psychological health and morbidity in older age
— baseline findings from a British population survey of ageing | | Author(s) | Ann Bowling |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 11, no 3, May 2007 |
| Pages | pp 301-309 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older men ; Older women ; Mental health [elderly] ; Mental disorder ; Health [elderly] ; Chronic illness ; Quality of life ; Comparison. |
| Annotation | In a face-to-face home interview survey of a random sample of 999 people aged 65+ living in Britain, a fifth of the respondents had symptoms of psychological morbidity. Men with high self-efficacy had over six times the odds of men with lower levels of scoring as a non-case with the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). Women with excellent to good health status had over five times the odds of those with worse health of scoring as a non-case. Self-efficacy and mobility were the strongest independent predictive variables of GHQ score among men; health status and subjective quality of life (QoL) were the strongest independent predictors among women. This paper is unique in examining in detail the independent, gender-specific and gender-sensitive predictors of psychological morbidity in a national random sample of older people. Optimism, self-efficacy, quality of life and mobility were gender-specific predictors, and health status was a gender-sensitive predictor of psychological morbidity. These differences suggest that interventions aiming to improve the mental health outcomes of older people need to be guided by evidence on risk factors by gender. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070614216 A |
| Classmark | BC: BD: D: E: CC: CI: F:59: 48 |
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