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Low income older adults' acceptance of depression treatments
— examination of within-group differences |
| Author(s) | Namkee G Choi, Nancy Morrow-Howell |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 11, no 4, July 2007 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, July 2007 |
| Pages | pp 423-433 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Ambulant ; Housebound ; Poor elderly ; Living in the community ; Depression ; Attitude ; Psychiatric treatment ; Drugs ; Literature ; Therapy ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using the 11-item Treatment Evaluation Inventory (TEI), a community sample of 79 housebound and 127 ambulatory older adults rated their acceptance of four depression treatments for two hypothetical cases with mild-to-moderate or severe levels of depressive symptoms. The four treatments were clinic-based cognitive therapy (CT), in-home cognitive bibliotherapy (CB), antidepressant medication (AM) and regimented physical exercise (PE). Older people had significantly less favourable attitudes toward AM than CT as a treatment for mild-to-moderate symptoms, and they were less accepting of CB than CT for sever symptoms. Concerns about becoming dependent on medication and about its side effects as well as the understanding of loneliness and isolation as causes of depression appear to have affected their scores. African American and Hispanic older adults showed attitudes that were as favourable as those of their non-Hispanic white peers toward all four types of depression treatments. Housebound older adults had less favourable attitudes towards CB than did their ambulatory peers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081124223 A |
| Classmark | C4A: C6: F:W6: K4: ENR: DP: LP: LLD: HK: LO: 48: 7T |
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