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| Factors associated with depression in Norwegian nursing homes | | Author(s) | Maria Lage Barca, Geir Selbaek, Jerson Laks |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 24, no 4, April 2009 |
| Pages | pp 417-425 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/gps |
| Keywords | Depression ; Cognitive impairment ; Health [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Correlation ; Norway. |
| Annotation | Depression among patients in nursing homes is frequent and apparently under-diagnosed. The aim of this Norwegian study was to confirm or reject the hypothesis that depression in nursing homes is associated with worse medical health, cognitive and functional impairment. A sample of 902 randomly selected nursing home patients was assessed using the Cornell Scale, the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR), the Self-Maintenance Scale and a general measurement of medical health. Additionally, information was collected from the patients' records. A multiple linear regression was performed with the CS total social and mood and non-mood sub-scale scores as the dependent variables. In the adjusted analysis, depression according to the Cornell total score was associated with worse medical health (strongest) and worse cognitive impairment but not with worse functional impairment. The mood sub-scale score was associated with worse medical health (strongest), pulmonary disease, being unmarried and female gender, but not with worse cognitive impairment. The non-mood sub-scale score was correlated with cognitive impairment (strongest), worse medical health, younger age, digestive disease and not having suffered stroke. The hypothesis was partly confirmed. Worse general health was the strongest factor associated with depression, followed by degree of cognitive impairment. Cognitive impairment was not associated with the mood sub-scale score, but was the strongest correlate for the non-mood symptoms of the Cornell Scale. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090824007 A |
| Classmark | ENR: E4: CC: 4C: KX: LHB: 49: 76N |
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