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| Relationship of physical disease and functional impairment to depression in older people | | Author(s) | Antonette M Zeiss, Peter M Lewinsohn, Paul Rohde |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 11, no 4, December 1996 |
| Pages | pp 572-581 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Ill health ; Diseases ; Mental disorder ; Correlation ; Living in the community ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Physical disease is commonly considered a risk factor for depression among older adults. However, this pattern is not consistently supported, and a theoretical framework for such a relationship has not been articulated. Lewinsohn, Hoberman, Teri and Hautzinger's 1985 integrative model of depression predicts that disease will be a risk factor for depression, only when disease results in functional impairment, and that impairment in the absence of disease is also a risk factor for depression. The authors tested these predictions in a community-based sample of older adults followed longitudinally, and found that functional impairment was a significant risk factor for depression, regardless of disease status. Disease was not a significant predictor of major depression, nor did it interact with impairment to predict depression. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120221 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CH: CJ: E: 49: K4: 3J: 7T |
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