Gender-specific factors associated with risk of depression among Lebanese older adults
Autor: | Pascale Salameh, Christa Boulos |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Rural Population Physical disability Odds 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors medicine Humans Cognitive decline Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged 030214 geriatrics business.industry Depression Loneliness Malnutrition Odds ratio Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Cross-Sectional Studies Geriatric Depression Scale Female Geriatrics and Gerontology medicine.symptom business Gerontology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Demography |
Zdroj: | Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric SocietyREFERENCES. 21(4) |
ISSN: | 1479-8301 |
Popis: | BACKGROUND Depression among older adults is a frequent and underdiagnosed condition. However, there is a paucity of research on mental health problems among elderly people in Arab countries. The purpose of this study was to describe the risk of depression among a representative sample of older Lebanese adults living in rural areas and to identify gender-specific factors associated with depression risk. METHODS This study included a randomly selected sample of 823 rural elderly people aged ≥65 years without cognitive decline. Data, including sociodemographic characteristics, living condition, health and functional status, were collected during face-to-face interviews. Depression was assessed by the five-item Geriatric Depression Scale. RESULTS Risk for depression was significantly higher in women than in men (39.5% vs 26.2%, P |
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