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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | The influence of depressive mood on activities of daily living and health care utilization in the elderly - The MEMO Study on the KORA platform Augsburg |
Author: | Baune, B. Berger, K. |
Citation: | Gesundheitswesen, 2005; 67(1):s176-s179 |
Publisher: | Georg Thieme Verlag |
Issue Date: | 2005 |
ISSN: | 0941-3790 1439-4421 |
Statement of Responsibility: | B. T. Braune and K. Berger |
Abstract: | Depression has a high prevalence in the general population and is often found as a comorbid condition in patient population with specific diseases. Little is known about health care resource use and depression impact on the daily life of community dwelling elderly. We assessed the prevalence of depression among 380 participants of the Memory and Morbidity in Augsburg Elderly Study, performed in 1997/98, a follow up project of the 1989/90 Augsburg MONICA survey S2, and evaluated the association with activities of daily living and health care utilisation. The prevalence of depressive symptoms severe enough to classify for manifest depression was 10.4 %. Women were twice as often affected. Participants with depression had a 3-fold higher probability for general practioner visits during the preceeding 4 weeks and were 3 to 4-fold more likely to have restrictions in their daily activities.In this study depression is associated with strong impairments in the daily life and more physician contacts of those affected. |
Keywords: | Depression prevalence activity of daily living health care utilisation |
Rights: | © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York |
DOI: | 10.1055/s-2005-858236 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2005-858236 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Psychiatry publications |
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