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| Anxiety symptoms and suicidal feelings in a population sample of 70-year-olds without dementia | | Author(s) | Mattias Jonson, Ingmar Skoog, Thomas Marlow |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 24, no 11, November 2012 |
| Pages | pp 1865-1871 |
| Source | www.journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | Anxiety ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Suicide ; Correlation ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | The association between anxiety symptoms and suicidal feelings was explored in a population sample of 70-year-olds without dementia, and to test whether associations would be independent of depression. Data for this study derive from the H70 longitudinal study initiated in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1971. Face-to-face interviews with 560 people born in 1930 were carried out by psychiatric nurses. Past month symptoms were rated with the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS). The Brief Scale for Anxiety (BSA) was derived from the CPRS to quantify anxiety symptom burden. Past month suicidal feelings were evaluated with the Paykel questions. Anxiety symptom burden was associated with suicidal feelings. The association remained after adjusting for major depression. One individual BSA item (Inner tension) was independently associated with suicidal feelings in a multivariate regression model. The association did not remain, however, in a final model in which depression symptoms replaced depression diagnosis. Results from this population study suggest an association between anxiety and suicidal feelings in older adults. The role of anxiety and depression symptoms needs further clarification in the study of suicidal behaviour in late life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121026118 A |
| Classmark | ENP: ENR: CT: EV: 49: 76P |
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