Mild depressive symptoms, self-reported disability, and slowing across multiple functional domains

Background: Subthreshold depressive symptoms are common in older adults. The threshold for the clinical significance of such symptoms is unclear. Mechanisms linking depressed mood to increased risk of disability need further investigation. Methods: Among older adults who did not meet criteria for de...

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Veröffentlicht in:International psychogeriatrics Jg. 24; H. 2; S. 253 - 260
Hauptverfasser: Albert, Steven M., Bear-Lehman, Jane, Burkhardt, Ann
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.02.2012
Elsevier Inc
Schlagworte:
Activities of Daily Living - psychology
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Adults
Aged
Anhedonia
Biological and medical sciences
Clinical significance
Cognition
Cognitive ability
Dementia
Depression
Depression - psychology
Disability
Emotions
Female
Gait
Geriatrics
Gerontology/Geriatrics
Humans
Male
Medical conditions
Medical sciences
Mental depression
Mobility
Mobility Limitation
Mood disorders
Neuropsychological Tests
Older people
People with disabilities
Persons with Disabilities - psychology
physical function
Physicians
Psychiatric/Mental Health
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Respondents
slowing
Sociodemographics
subsyndromal
Symptoms
slowing
physical function
depression
cognition
subsyndromal
Human
Mood disorder
Handicap
Self evaluation
Depression
Cognition
Subsyndromal
Disability
Symptomatology
Slowing down
Elderly
ISSN:1041-6102, 1741-203X, 1741-203X
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Zusammenfassung:Background: Subthreshold depressive symptoms are common in older adults. The threshold for the clinical significance of such symptoms is unclear. Mechanisms linking depressed mood to increased risk of disability need further investigation. Methods: Among older adults who did not meet criteria for depression, respondents reporting no anhedonia and dysphoria over the past two weeks were compared to respondents reporting occasional symptoms with respect to self-reported disability and cognitive, psychomotor, and physical performance tests. Results: Of 312 community-resident participants without dementia, 35.3% (n = 110) reported one or both of the two depressive symptoms at mild severity (no more than “several days” in the past two weeks). Older adults with mild depressive symptoms reported more physician-diagnosed medical conditions (2.2 vs. 1.8, p < 0.01) and mobility problems (3.0 vs. 1.8, 0–7 scale, p < 0.001), and were slower in gait (0.80 vs. 0.73 m/sec, p < 0.01) and speed of cognitive processing (Trail B, 166.1 vs. 184.7 sec, p < 0.001). In regression models that adjusted for sociodemographic and medical status, subthreshold symptoms were not a significant correlate of slowing in gait speed or cognitive performance. However, subthreshold depressive symptoms were associated with self-reported mobility limitation in models that adjusted for observed performance. Conclusions: Mild depressive symptoms in this sample were not an independent correlate of slowed performance. However, the presence of mild depressive symptoms was associated with poorer appraisal of mobility after adjustment for objective measures of mobility.
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ISSN:1041-6102
1741-203X
1741-203X
DOI:10.1017/S1041610211001499