Differences in symptomatology and diagnostic profile in younger and elderly depressed inpatients

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 64, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 239-248

  Stage, K B ^a   Bech, P ^b   Kragh Sorensen, P ^a   Nair, N P V ^c   Katona, C ^d  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Major Depression; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; MOCLOBEMIDE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE A INHIBITOR; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEX RATIO; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0035061869     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0327(00)00245-7     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Quantitative rating of depressive states. Correlation between clinical assessment, self-rating scale (Beck's depressive inventory), and objective rating scale (Hamilton)
2. Mini-compendium of rating scales for states of anxiety, depression, mania, schizophrenia with corresponding DSM-III syndromes
3. The Major Depression Rating Scale (MDS). Inter-rater reliability and validity across different settings in randomized moclobemide trials
4. Major depression with melancholia: A comparison of middle-aged and elderly adults
5. Epidemiology of dysphoria and depression in an elderly population
6. The diagnosis of depressive syndromes and the prediction of ECT response
7. Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests
8. Citalopram: Clinical effect profile in comparison with clomipramine. A controlled multicenter study
9. Paroxetine: A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor showing better tolerance but weaker antidepressant effect than clomipramine in a controlled multicenter study
10. Moclobemide: A reversible MAO-A-inhibitor showing weaker antidepressant effect than clomipramine in a controlled multicenter study
11. Measurement of depression in patients with cancer
12. Antidepressant drug studies, 1964-1986: Emperical evidence for aging patients
13. Delusional depression: A distinct clinical entity?
14. A semi-structured clinical interview for the assessment of diagnosis and mental state in the elderly. The geriatric mental state schedule 2. A factor analysis
15. A basis for scaling qualitative data
16. Development of a rating scale for primary depressive illness
17. Diagnosis of major depression in cancer patients according to four sets of criteria
18. Dementia and depression among the elderly living in the Hobart community: The effect of the diagnostic criteria on the prevalence rates
19. Profile of depressive symptoms in younger and older medical inpatients with major depression
20. The technique of homogeneous tests compared with some aspects of scale analysis and factor analysis
21. Objective tests as measurements of psychological theory
22. Moclobemide and nortriptyline in elderly depressed patients. A randomized, multicentre trial against placebo
23. Substituting nonsomatic for somatic symptoms in the diagnosis of depression in elderly male medical patients
24. Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in medical inpatients
25. Are in-patient depressives more often of the melancholic subtype?
26. Depression, physical health and somatic complaints in the elderly. A study of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale
27. Age-related differences in the symptomatic expression of major depression
28. Some statistical methods useful in circulation research
29. The myth of involutional melancholia
30. Depression in the elderly
31. Old people at home, their unreported needs