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| Psychiatric disorders in elderly from the Indian sub-continent living in Bradford | | Author(s) | Kumud Bhatnagar, Judith Frank |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 9, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 907-912 |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Dementia ; Anxiety ; Asian people ; Social surveys ; Bradford. |
| Annotation | In this community study of the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among older immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh living in Bradford, West Yorkshire, the authors found depression in 20%, dementia in 4%, and anxiety neuroses in 4%. Subjects were interviewed at their place of residence by a consultant psychiatrist familiar with their culture and language. The Hindi translation of the community version of the Geriatric Mental State schedule (GMS-A) was also administered. Psychiatrist's ICD-9 diagnosis was compared with GMS-AGECAT computerised diagnoses. The authors found low-level agreement in dementia cases (kappa 0.33), whereas the agreement in subjects with depression was high (kappa 0.81). In many subjects GMS-A made a diagnosis of dementia not diagnosed as cases by the psychiatrist, who had the benefit of additional history information from carers in the population from a different culture and educational background. The findings and limitations of GMS-A in the diagnosis of dementia in cross-cultural research are discussed. Larger studies are needed to find out prevalence rates in country of origin; and to investigate observations of low rates of Alzheimer type dementia in this population. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980827265 A |
| Classmark | E4: EA: ENP: TKK: 3F: 88A |
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