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| Detection of subthreshold depression and subthreshold anxiety in the elderly | | Author(s) | Andreas Papassotiropoulos, Reinhard Heun |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 14, no 8, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 643-650 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Anxiety ; Screening ; Health [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Germany. |
| Annotation | The authors investigated whether already available instruments could be used, improved or modified to detect sub-threshold depression disorders. Attention was focused on detection of affective and anxiety disorders in the general older population, where prevalence of such disorders appears to be high. A community-based sample of 274 Germans aged over 60 comprised 57 suffering from sub-threshold depression, 26 with acute sub-threshold anxiety, and 173 defined as being healthy. Measurements used were the short version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), and the Structured Interview for the Diagnosis of Dementia of the Alzheimer type, the Multi-infarct Dementia and Dementias of other Etiology (SIDAM) for cognitive impairment. The CES-D moderately detected sub-threshold anxiety. However, sub-threshold depression could not be efficiently detected by any of these questionnaires. The combination of items indicating the presence of somatic symptoms and depressive affect could improve instrument performance when screening for sub-threshold anxiety, but not for sub-threshold depression. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825288 A |
| Classmark | ENR: ENP: 3V: CC: 4C: 767 |
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