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| Early loss of father predicts depression in old age | | Author(s) | Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä, Heikki Luukinen, Keijko Koski |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 13, no 8, August 1998 |
| Pages | pp 527-530 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Older men ; Older women ; Longitudinal surveys ; Finland. |
| Annotation | The independent predictive roles of early losses, personality traits, acute losses and long-term stress situations for the occurrence of depression in older Finnish people were examined in this longitudinal study. 679 non-depressed persons in an epidemiological study in 1984-85 were interviewed in 1989-90 and the occurrence of depression was determined according to DSM-III criteria. Logistic regression models were used to assess the independent roles of the hypothesised factors as predictors. An early loss of the mother among men and an early loss of the father among women independently predicted the occurrence of depression in logistic regression models. Older age in men, and a higher number of symptoms, the occurrence of previous depression and not living alone in women were also independent predictors. In men, impaired functional abilities and poor self-perceived health tended to predict depression. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981013403 A |
| Classmark | ENR: BC: BD: 3J: 76L |
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