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Psychological outreach programmes for the depressed elderly
— a meta-analysis of effects and dropout | | Author(s) | Pim Cuijpers |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 13, no 1, January 1998 |
| Pages | pp 41-48 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Living in the community ; Psychiatric treatment. |
| Annotation | Utilisation of psychiatric services by older people with depression is low compared to younger adults. Outreach programmes in which treatment is actively offered to depressed older people in the community can be used to improve their access to mental health care. In this study a meta-analysis was carried out to study the effectiveness of these outreach programmes. Fourteen studies were found in which psychological treatment was offered to depressed older people in the community. The mean dropout rate was 23%. It was also found that dropout was larger in group interventions, in cognitive behavioural therapies, in interventions with more female participants, and in interventions offering more sessions. The study suggested that future research is needed to examine the differences between depressed persons who volunteer for a research programme and persons participating in an outreach programme, and to examine if outreach programmes reach depressed persons who would otherwise not have sought help. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980312412 A |
| Classmark | ENR: K4: LP |
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