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| Religiosity and remission of depression in medically ill older patients | | Author(s) | Harold G Koenig, Linda K George, Bercedis L Peterson |
| Journal title | American Journal of Psychiatry, vol 155, no 4, April 1998 |
| Pages | pp 536-542 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Worship ; Ill health ; In-patients ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The effects of religious belief and activity on remission of depression were examined in medically ill hospitalised older patients. Of 111 patients scoring 16 or higher in the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), 94 were diagnosed with depressive disorder by a psychiatrist using a structured psychiatric interview. After hospital discharge, depressed patients were followed up by telephone at 12-week intervals four times. At each follow-up contact, criterion symptoms were reassessed, and changes in each symptom over the interval since last contact were determined. The median follow-up time for 87 depressed patients was 47 weeks. Religious variables were examined as predictors of time to remission by means of multivariate Cox model, with controls for demographic, physical health, psychosocial, and treatment factors. results showed that during the follow-up period 47 patients had remissions; the median time to remission was 30 weeks. Intrinsic religiosity was significantly and independently related to time to remission, but church attendance and private religious activities were not. Depressed patients with higher intrinsic religiosity scores had more rapid remissions than patients with lower scores. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981118202 A |
| Classmark | ENR: EX: OWL: CH: LF7: 7T * |
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