Older Adults Are Less Accurate Than Younger Adults at Identifying Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression
| Autor: | Murray B. Stein, Thomas L. Patterson, Patricia Hoffman Judd, Julie Loebach Wetherell, Daniel D. Sewell, Enid Rockwell, Andrew J. Petkus, Kathleen McChesney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Personality Inventory Psychometrics Article Young Adult Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Young adult Psychiatry Geriatric Assessment Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Depressive Disorder Principal Component Analysis Age Factors Social environment Middle Aged medicine.disease Anxiety Disorders Mental health Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Logistic Models Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Personality Assessment Inventory Psychology Anxiety disorder |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. 197:623-626 |
| ISSN: | 0022-3018 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/nmd.0b013e3181b0c081 |
| Popis: | The present study examined age differences in the discrimination between anxiety and depressive symptoms in a community sample of 374 adults, ages 18–93. Older adults were less accurate and more likely than younger adults to label symptoms as neither anxiety nor depression. Both older and younger adults were more accurate in their classification of depressive than anxiety symptoms. These findings suggest that additional efforts are needed to educate the general public, particularly older adults, about anxiety and its symptoms. |
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