Life Events, Life Difficulties and Confiding Relationships in the Depressed Elderly
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 155 (6) , 787-792
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.155.6.787
Abstract
A total of 101 elderly depressed patients and 85 community residents (matched for age and sex) were interviewed about life events, difficulties, and confiding relationships. Significantly more of the depressed sample reported at least one severe event in the three months before the onset of their illness. Lack of a good confiding relationship was associated with depression in men but not in women. In this relatively affluent Australian sample, life difficulties were rare and, probably as a result, were not significantly associated with depression.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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