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| Longitudinal assessment of psychotherapeutic day hospital treatment for elderly patients with depression | | Author(s) | Alesandra Canuto, Corina Meiler-Mititelu, François R Herrmann |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 23, no 9, September 2008 |
| Pages | pp 949-956 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Group work ; Psychiatric treatment ; Therapy ; Day hospitals ; Evaluation ; Longitudinal surveys ; Switzerland. |
| Annotation | Psychotherapeutic day hospitals may provide an effective treatment for older patients with depression and also improve their quality of life. The authors performed an assessment of a psychiatric day hospital treatment containing individual and group psychotherapy in a series of 122 older depressed patients in Geneva, Switzerland. The Geriatric Depression Scale Short Form Survey (GDS), as well as a Therapeutic Community Assessment Scale and Group Evaluation Scale were reported at admission, 3, 6, and 12 months and discharge. All patients presented with major depression or a depressive episode or bipolar disease. Variables included severity of depressive symptoms, quality of life, adhesion to therapeutic community treatment, and progress in groups of psychotherapy, art therapy, and psychomotricity. There was a significant reduction of depressive symptoms, and movement in mental quality of life across all point studied. Adhesion to therapeutic community increased from admission to discharge. This was the case for the progress in group therapy for all three groups used, yet the evolution of this parameter at intermediate time points was highly variable. Neither demographic characteristics nor pharmacological treatment or presence of stressful life events produced the clinical improvement. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081009205 A |
| Classmark | ENR: IGG: LP: LO: LDD: 4C: 3J: 76C |
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