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| Religiosity of depressed elderly inpatients | | Author(s) | Vahid Payman, Kuruvilla George, Bridget Ryburn |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 23, no 1, January 2008 |
| Pages | pp 16-21 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | In-patients ; Religion ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Depression ; Evaluation ; Australia. |
| Annotation | In-patients with a DSM-IV diagnosis of major depression were interviewed on admission to the psychogeriatric unit of a geriatric centre in Melbourne, Australia. Information collected included patient demographics, intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity, cognitive function, severity of depression, number of chronic illnesses, physical function, and numbers and quality of social support. Pearson correlation and multivariate analysis using a standard regression model were used to examine the relationship between the religious and other variables. Of the 86 patients completing the assessment, 25% attended church regularly and 37% prayed, meditated or read the Bible at least once a day. Just over half rarely or never engaged in such behaviours. Three in eight patients were "intrinsically" religious. Religious patients expressed higher levels of social support; physically disabled patients were more likely to be religious. Depressed older in-patients are less religious than their North American counterparts. Nevertheless, religion remains important for a large minority of such individuals. Clinicians need to be aware that such individuals may turn to religion when depressed, especially to cope with the presence of physical disability. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080212208 A |
| Classmark | LF7: TR: EX: ENR: 4C: 7YA |
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