Detection of depression in older adults by family and friends: Distinguishing mood disorder signals from the noise of personality and everyday life

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 634-643

  Duberstein, Paul R ^a   Ma, Yan ^a   Chapman, Benjamin P ^a   Conwell, Yeates ^a   McGriff, Joanne ^a   Coyne, James C ^b   Franus, Nathan ^a   Heisel, Marnin J ^a,c   Kaukeinen, Kimberly A ^a   Sörensen, Silvia ^a   Tu, Xin M ^a   Lyness, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

depression; informants; personality; primary care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXTRAVERSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIEND; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; AGING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOOD DISORDER; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY;

EID: 80051738375     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610210001808     Document Type: Article

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