Somatic Symptoms in Old Age Depression

Somatic Symptoms in Old Age Depression

Authors

  • R KAREEM
  • A SHAKOOR
  • R AZIZ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21649/akemu.v4i2.3793

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Abstract

Frequent somatic symptoms in old age depression lead to the label of “masked depression” and result in under-detection and under-treatment of morbidity in this age group. Depressive symptomatology of 80 elderly (age 60 years and above) was compared with that of 118 young depressives (age range 20-39 years) at psychiatry department of Mayo Hospital, Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and Bradford Somatic Inventory were used to obtain the somatic symptoms profile of the patients. The elderly depressives did not report more symptoms, however, they had a specific pattern of somatic symptoms easily distinguishable from that of their younger counterparts. With such a characteristic pattern of somatic symptoms in mind, clinicians can help minimize the under detection and under treatment of age depression.

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Published

08/20/2020

How to Cite

KAREEM, R. ., SHAKOOR, A. ., & AZIZ, R. . (2020). Somatic Symptoms in Old Age Depression. Annals of King Edward Medical University, 4(2), 6–9. https://doi.org/10.21649/akemu.v4i2.3793

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (1998): AKEMU

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Research Articles

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