LIFE EVENTS AND DEPRESSION IN ELDERLY

Thirty-one elderly depressive patients (diagnosed as suffering from depressive episode or recurrent depressive disorder according to LCD-10 diagnostic criteria for research) attending psychiatry O.P.D. or geriatric clinic at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (AIIMS) and thirty-o...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Niruj, Jhingan, H.P.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2953652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206879
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description Thirty-one elderly depressive patients (diagnosed as suffering from depressive episode or recurrent depressive disorder according to LCD-10 diagnostic criteria for research) attending psychiatry O.P.D. or geriatric clinic at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (AIIMS) and thirty-one elderly nonpsychiatric patients, attending geriatric clinic at AIIMS were subjected to a semi structured interview to gather information regarding life events. It was found that the elderly depressed patients experienced significantly higher number of stressful life events as compared to the control group. The stressful life events were specifically more in the females, those with low ′per capita income′, and those who perceived crisis in the family.
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spelling pubmed-29536522011-01-04 LIFE EVENTS AND DEPRESSION IN ELDERLY Agrawal, Niruj Jhingan, H.P. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Thirty-one elderly depressive patients (diagnosed as suffering from depressive episode or recurrent depressive disorder according to LCD-10 diagnostic criteria for research) attending psychiatry O.P.D. or geriatric clinic at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (AIIMS) and thirty-one elderly nonpsychiatric patients, attending geriatric clinic at AIIMS were subjected to a semi structured interview to gather information regarding life events. It was found that the elderly depressed patients experienced significantly higher number of stressful life events as compared to the control group. The stressful life events were specifically more in the females, those with low ′per capita income′, and those who perceived crisis in the family. Medknow Publications 2002 /pmc/articles/PMC2953652/ /pubmed/21206879 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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LIFE EVENTS AND DEPRESSION IN ELDERLY
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title_full_unstemmed LIFE EVENTS AND DEPRESSION IN ELDERLY
title_short LIFE EVENTS AND DEPRESSION IN ELDERLY
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2953652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206879
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