A General Hospital-Based Model for Early Detection of Depression in the Geriatric Patients with Chronic Medical Diseases
Journal of the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry
;
: 31-40, 2013.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-725241
ABSTRACT
The geriatric patients with chronic physical diseases are frequently associated with the continuous clusters of depression including nonpathological sadness, subsyndromal depression, minor depressive disorder, and major depressive disorder. Because of the complex and reciprocal relationships among depression, elderly, and chronic physical diseases, screening approaches with specific nosological methods should be needed in the realm of early detection of depression. Cognitive decline is frequently manifested in geriatric depression with medical or neurological diseases. Also, somatic symptoms of depression or emotional symptoms of physical diseases can play a role as a hampering factor in the early detection of depression. Furthermore, after-care has been regarded as an essential factor of depression screening in the geriatric patients with chronic physical diseases. We reviewed the most popular examples of integrated medicine for depression in primary care. Thus, we propose a general hospital-based model for early detection of depression which includes favorable response loop between screening and therapeutic intervention. Our model can be a basis for evidence-based detection and after-care for depression in the geriatric patients with chronic medical diseases.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Primary Health Care
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Mass Screening
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Depression
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Depressive Disorder, Major
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Depressive Disorder
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
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Screening study
Limits:
Aged
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Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry
Year:
2013
Type:
Article
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