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Prevalence of depressive symptoms and syndromes in later life in ten European countries
— the SHARE Study | | Author(s) | E Castro-Costa, M Dewey, R Stewart |
| Journal title | British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 191, November 2007 |
| Pages | pp 393-401 |
| Source | http://bjp.rcpsych.org |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; European Union ; Cross national surveys ; Europe. |
| Annotation | The EURO-D, a 12-item self-report questionnaire for depression was developed with the aim of facilitating cross-cultural research into late-life depression in Europe. As part of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the EURO-D was administered to cross-sectional nationally representative samples of non-institutionalised people aged 50+ (n=22777). The effects of age, gender, education and cognitive functioning on individual symptoms and EURO-D factor scores were estimated, The prevalence of all symptoms for depression was higher in the Latin ethno-lingual group of countries, especially symptoms related to motivation. Women scored higher on affective suffering; older people and those with impaired verbal fluency scored higher on motivation. The prevalence of individual EURO-D symptoms and of probable depression varied consistently between countries. Standardisation for effects of age, gender, education and cognitive functioning suggested that these compositional factors did not account for the observed variation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071206216 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: WFC: 3K: 74 |
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