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Health, health behaviour and functional ability predicting depression in old age
— a longitudinal study | | Author(s) | Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä, Päivi Kongäs-Saviaro, Pahkala Kimmo, Erkki Kesti |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 11, no 10, October 1996 |
| Pages | pp 871-877 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Good Health ; Symptoms ; At risk ; Depression ; Longitudinal surveys ; Finland. |
| Annotation | The predictive value of health, health behaviour and functional ability for the occurrence of depression in older Finns is described using a longitudinal design. Those examined as not being depressed (DSM-III criteria) in an epidemiological study in 1984-85 were interviewed and examined in a follow-up study in 1989-90. Risk factors were analysed by contrasting those depressed in 1989-90 with those not depressed. Of the symptoms, recurrent falling and loss of appetite in men; and palpitation, dyspnoea at rest, tremor in the hands, nausea, dizziness, recurrent falling, apathy and feebleness, fatigue and weakness, restlessness and sight disturbances in women, predicted depression. Certain depressive symptoms, such as crying spells, psychomotor agitation, irritability, self-deprecation and suicidal thoughts in men; and sadness, tachycardia, and loss of concentration, psychomotor retardation and indecisiveness in women, also predicted depression. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970421007 A |
| Classmark | CC: CD: CT: CA3: ENR: 3J: 76L |
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