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| The psychopathology of worry in the elderly | | Author(s) | Sheila Cooper |
| Journal title | PSIGE Newsletter, no 67, December 1998 |
| Publisher | Psychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, December 1998 |
| Pages | pp 21-25 |
| Keywords | Anxiety ; Mental health [elderly] ; Indicators. |
| Annotation | Worry is implicated in a number of mental health problems, and is regarded by some authorities as an inevitable concomitant of old age. Measures of worry have tended to be validated on young to middle-age adults, and only exceptionally on older people. An attempt to validate an existing measure of worry (the Anxious Thoughts Inventory - AnTI) on older adults is described. Additional qualitative research explores participants' reasons to worry and the idiosyncratic properties of their worry. The prevalence rates point to worry in older adults as an important area for research, which so far shows a clear clinical need for a measure of worry that can be used across all age groups. Future studies need to consider methodological problems, and to incorporate additional data such as physical health, pharmacology, personal status and support networks. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990224003 A |
| Classmark | ENP: D: 3RI |
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