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Profile of mental disorders among the elderly United Arab Emirates population
— sociodemographic correlates | | Author(s) | Rafia Ghubash, Omer El-Rufaie, Taoufik Zoubeidi |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 19, no 4, April 2004 |
| Pages | pp 344-351 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Mental health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Demography ; United Arab Emirates. |
| Annotation | 610 United Arab Emirates (UAE) nationals aged 60+ were interviewed with an Arabic version of the Geriatric Mental State Interview (GMS-A3) and a short questionnaire for relevant sociodemographic data. The GMS-AGECAT proved a useful tool for psychiatric assessment of older people in this Arabian culture: most commonly found was depression (20.2%). The prevalence rates of mental disorders in the UAE older population were, more or less, within the same range reported by other comparable worldwide studies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040505219 A |
| Classmark | E: D: F: S8: 7EP |
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