scholarly journals Quality of life, depressive symptoms and religiosity in elderly adults: a cross-sectional study

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 648-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Érika de Cássia Lopes Chaves ◽  
Caroline Freire Paulino ◽  
Valéria Helena Salgado Souza ◽  
Ana Cláudia Mesquita ◽  
Flávia Santana Carvalho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Subjects ◽  
Mild Depression ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale

Quality of life and depression are relevant to the health of the elderly. Studies indicate a positive association between religiosity and health. This study investigated quality of life, depressive symptoms and their relationship with religiosity in the elderly. The study included 287 older people from a unit of the Family Health Strategy. Data were collected by means of the instruments: John Flanagan's Quality of Life Scale, the short Geriatric Depression Scale and the Duke University Religion Index. The elderly showed high levels of religiosity, which, according to Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient, was positively associated with quality of life (p<0.004), but not related to depressive symptoms. Results indicated a high degree of satisfaction among the elderly subjects with their quality of life, whereas 83% showed mild depression. In conclusion, religiosity is related to improvement in quality of life in the elderly.

scholarly journals Depressive Symptoms, Pain, and Quality of Life among Patients with Nonalcohol-Related Chronic Pancreatitis

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy E. Balliet ◽  
Shenelle Edwards-Hampton ◽  
Jeffery J. Borckardt ◽  
Katherine Morgan ◽  
David Adams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Chronic Pancreatitis ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Depressive Symptomology ◽  
The Mean

Objective. The present study was conducted to determine if depressive symptoms were associated with variability in pain perception and quality of life among patients with nonalcohol-related chronic pancreatitis. Methods. The research design was cross-sectional, and self-report data was collected from 692 patients with nonalcohol-related, intractable pancreatitis. The mean age of the sample was 52.6 (); 41% of the sample were male. Participants completed the MOS SF12 Quality of Life Measure, the Center for Epidemiological Studies 10-item Depression Scale (CESD), and a numeric rating scale measure of “pain on average” from the Brief Pain Inventory. Results. Depressive symptoms were significantly related to participants’ reports of increased pain and decreased quality of life. The mean CESD score of the sample was 10.6 () and 52% of the sample scored above the clinical cutoff for the presence of significant depressive symptomology. Patients scoring above the clinical cutoff on the depression screening measure rated their pain as significantly higher than those below the cutoff () and had significantly lower physical quality of life () and lower mental quality of life (). Conclusion. Although causality cannot be determined based on cross-sectional, correlational data, findings suggest that among patients with nonalcoholic pancreatitis, the presence of depressive symptoms is common and may be a risk factor associated with increased pain and decreased quality of life. Thus, routine screening for depressive symptomology among patients with nonalcoholic pancreatitis may be warranted.

scholarly journals Depression and quality of life in mothers of children with pervasive developmental disorders

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Ângela Fávero-Nunes ◽  
Manoel Antônio dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Pervasive Developmental Disorders ◽  
Developmental Disorders ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Demographic Profile ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale

The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of dysphoria/depressive symptoms in mothers of autistic children and to identify correlations between quality of life and socio-demographic profile. An exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out, involving 20 mothers, by applying a socio-demographic profile questionnaire, the Brazilian version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the WHOQOL-Bref quality of life scale. Dysphoria/depression criteria were found in 15% of the mothers. Overall quality of life was evaluated as positive in 70%, however only 40% were satisfied with their health. The Physical domain (mean=69.4) was perceived as the best, and environment domain as the worst (mean=60.8). Quality of life had a positive association with family income and level of education, and a negative association with depression. Considering the results, further research, especially on those variables that were not statistically relevant, is suggested.

scholarly journals Evaluation of depressive symptoms and quality of life in individuals with tinnitus and temporomandibular disorders

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 415
Author(s):  
Suelen Recepute Xavier ◽  
Letícia Ladeira Bonato ◽  
Elisa Lima Alves ◽  
Letícia Raquel Baraky ◽  
Luciano Ambrósio Ferreira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Temporomandibular Disorders ◽  
Myofascial Pain ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Subjective Tinnitus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Catastrophic Impact

Various etiologies are attributed to the development of subjective tinnitus, but their inter-relationship with the presence of temporomandibular disorders and depression is still poorly understood. To assess the presence of depressive symptoms in individuals with TMD and subjective tinnitus, assessing the impact on their quality of life. This is a cross-sectional observational descriptive study. We evaluated 44 patients in a public University. For TMD diagnosis as well as assessment of depressive symptoms, the RDC/TMD questionnaire was used. Otolaryngological assessment was conducted by means of pure tone, speech, and immitance audiometry. The “Tinnitus Handicap Inventory” questionnaire was also administered. 84% of the individuals with tinnitus had myofascial pain, with the masseter muscle being the most prevalent area of pain, and 16% exclusively had painful and/or degenerative TMJ changes. Among the patients with myofascial pain, 86,5% had depressive symptoms, while among those without myofascial pain, only 42,8% presented these symptoms. Eleven (11) patients (25%) reported slight impact of tinnitus on quality of life, 15 (34%) mild impact, 7 (16%) moderate, 7 (16%) severe, and 4 (9%) catastrophic impact. There was a positive association between the presence of myofascial pain and depressive symptoms (p=0,02), as the intensity of tinnitus increases and the severity of depressive symptoms (p

scholarly journals Impact of a program to promote health and quality of life of elderly

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Affini Borsoi Tamai ◽  
Sergio Márcio Pacheco Paschoal ◽  
Julio Litvoc ◽  
Adriana Nunes Machado ◽  
Pedro Kallas Curiati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
World Health ◽  
Elderly Subjects ◽  
Physical Domain ◽  
World Health Organization Quality ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the effect on quality of life of elderly people enrolled in GAMIA – Multidisciplinary Care Group to Outpatient Elderly Subjects (Grupo de Assistência Multidisciplinar ao Idoso Ambulatorial) of the Geriatric Department, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo. Methods: Between 2000 and 2002, 83 elderly participants of GAMIA were assessed by the World Health Organization Quality of Life scale (WHOQOL-bref) at the beginning and the end of the program. Functionality was assessed by Katz and Lawton scales and sociodemographic data were obtained from medical charts. Results: Females predominated (79.5%) and overall mean age was 69.30 years. Data analysis showed a reduction in the physical domain of WHOQOL-bref (p = 0.014) and increased psychological health and environment domains (p = 0.029 and p = 0.007, respectively), detecting a trend of increase in social relationships and in general domains (p = 0.062 and p = 0.052, respectively). Conclusions: The clinical evaluation of the elderly detected previously unknown diseases and determination of the use of new drugs, which might have been the predominant factor for the deterioration of their perception in the physical domain. Improvement in psychological health and the environment can be related to psychological and social support that the elderly received from peers and professionals and the benefits of group activities, as well as the upward trend observed in social relationships and general domains. Participation in a program to promote healthy aging was effective in improving the quality of life of the elderly.

Suicidal Ideation, Depression and Quality of Life in the Elderly: Study in a Gerontopsychiatric Consultation

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Ponte ◽  
Vera Almeida ◽  
Lia Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Functional Disability ◽  
Geriatric Depression Scale ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

AbstractThe global increase in elderly population all over the world, especially in Portugal, justifies the importance of mental health study in this age group. The aim of this study was to characterize the elderly patients in Gerontopsychiatry Consultation of Centro Hospitalar São João in Porto, related to socio-demographic aspects, physical and global disabilities, depression, suicidal ideation and quality of life, and to explore the association between suicidal ideation, depression, and quality of life and global and functional disability. In this cross-sectional study, 155 patients were recruited consecutively, with a final sample of 75 subjects (59 women and 16 men) without cognitive deficits and a mean age of 72.8 (SD = 6.04). Concerning the depression level measured with the Geriatric Depression Scale (Barreto et al., 2008) it was found that 66.7% presented severe depression and suicidal ideation (M = 41.96, SD = 36.38), a value considered with a potential risk of suicide using the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (Ferreira & Castela, 1999). The elderly also perceived their quality of life as low, revealing global disability assessed with the EasyCare- Elderly Assessment (Sousa & Figueiredo, 2000a). A significant positive correlation was also found between depression and suicidal ideation (rs =.71, p < .001), as well as quality of life (rs = .50, p < .001), and suicidal ideation with quality of life (rs = .40, p < .001). The data obtained in this study corroborate the results found in other studies.

scholarly journals Health status, resilience and quality of life of first and fourth year nursing students

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Marques da Silva ◽  
Ana Lucia Siqueira Costa ◽  
Fernanda Carneiro Mussi ◽  
Fernanda Michelle Santos e Silva ◽  
Keila Cristina Félis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Cross Sectional

Objective: To compare the health status (stress, depressive symptoms and sleep quality), the resilience and quality of life in first and fourth year nursing students.Methods: This is a cross-sectional research conducted in 2016 with 86 students enrolled in first and fourth years of the nursing degree. We applied the instrument for Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index, Wagnild and Young’s Resilience Scale; and the WHOQOL-BREF. ANOVA (Test F) was applied for data analysis.Results and conclusions: A total of 49 first-year and 37 fourth-year students were sampled for this study. Fourth- year nursing students showed higher levels of stress, lower intensity of depressive symptoms and higher quality of life and resilience levels. The poor sleep quality was prevalent in both groups. Conclusion: although the nursing education potentially contributes for students’ sickness, the experiences lived in this period may strength the resilience skills.Conclusions: Video indexing and retrieval are accomplished by using hashing and $k$-d tree methods, while visual signatures containing color, shape and texture information are estimated for the key-frames, by using image and frequency domain techniques. Experimental results with the dataset of a multimedia information system especially developed for managing television broadcast archives demonstrate that our approach works efficiently, retrieving videos in 0.16 seconds on average and achieving recall, precision and F1 measure values, as high as 0.76, 0.97 and 0.86 respectively.

scholarly journals Impact of anxiety-depressive symptoms on outpatients’ quality of life: Preliminary results from an Italian observational study

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S319-S319
Author(s):  
S. Tassi ◽  
G. Rioli ◽  
G. Mattei ◽  
S. Ferrari ◽  
G.M. Galeazzi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Small Sample Size ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

IntroductionSeveral studies have shown an association between the Short-Form 36 (SF36) scores and anxiety-depressive symptoms, suggesting that depression in particular could reduce Quality of Life (QoL) to the same, and even greater, extent than chronic non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension.AimsTo explore the relationship among QoL and anxiety, depressive and anxiety-depressive symptoms in an outpatient sample.MethodsCross-sectional study. Inclusion criteria: outpatients aged ≥40 years, without history for cancer, attending colonoscopy after positive faecal occult blood test. Collected data: blood pressure, blood glucose, lipid profile. Psychometric test: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). QoL was assessed with SF36. Statistics performed with STATA13.Results54 patients enrolled (27 females). Sixteen patients (30.2%) were positive for anxiety symptoms, ten (18.9%) for depressive symptoms and five (9.4%) for anxiety-depressive symptoms. The perceived QoL was precarious in twelve subjects (22.2%): eight (15.9%) had low score (≤ 42) at “Mental Component Summary” (MCS) subscale, three (5.7%) at the “Mental Health” item and one patient (1.9%) at the “Vitality” one. At the multiple regression analysis, depressive (OR = 28.63; P = 0.01) and anxiety-depressive symptoms (OR = 11.16; P = 0.02) were associated with MCS.ConclusionsThe association emerging from the present study between depressive/anxiety symptoms and the MCS component of SF36 is consistent with available literature. Study design and small sample size do not allow to generalize results, that need further studies to be confirmed.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Frailty, depression, and quality of life: a study with elderly caregivers

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Letícia Alves de Melo ◽  
Isabela Thaís Machado de Jesus ◽  
Fabiana de Souza Orlandi ◽  
Grace Angélica de Oliveira Gomes ◽  
Marisa Silvana Zazzetta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Geriatric Depression Scale ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Frailty Phenotype ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Elderly Caregivers

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the relationship between frailty, depressive symptoms, and quality of life of elderly caregivers of other elderly living in high social vulnerability. Methods: a descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study conducted with 40 elderly caregivers. A questionnaire to characterize elderly caregivers, the Fried frailty phenotype, the Geriatric Depression Scale (to screen depressive symptoms) and the Short-Form 6 Dimension (to assess quality of life) were used. For data analysis, Student’s t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s χ2 and Fisher’s exact test were used. Results: most were pre-frail (52.5%) and had no evidence of depressive symptoms (57.5%). They presented, on average, a score of 0.76 (±0.1) in relation to quality of life. Statistical significance was observed between the average scores of quality of life with depressive symptoms (p=0.012) and frailty level (p=0.004). Conclusion: frail elderly caregivers with depressive symptoms had a worse perception of quality of life.

scholarly journals The Dimensions of Auditory Hallucination in Schizophrenia: Association with Depressive Symptoms and Quality of Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janaki V ◽  
Suzaily W ◽  
Abdul Hamid AR ◽  
Hazli Z ◽  
Azmawati MN
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Auditory Hallucination ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
World Health ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
World Health Organization Quality

Introduction: Auditory hallucination (AH) is often unexplored in depth in clinical practice. This study sought to ascertain the relationship between AH, depressive symptoms and quality of life (QOL) and its association with socio-demographic and clinical variables. Methods: This was a cross sectional study done in a psychiatry unit involving 60 schizophrenic patients between 18 to 60 years old. Psychotic Symptom Rating Scale – Auditory Hallucination subscale (PSYRATS-AH), Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia (CDSS) and World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief scale (WHOQOL-BREF) were used as instruments. Results: Alcohol intake was found to be significantly associated with the severity of AH. A significant moderate positive correlation was found between AH total score and CDSS (r=0.53, p<0.001) and moderately high correlation between emotional characteristics subscale with CDSS (r=0.651, p<0.005). The PSYRATS-AH dimensions; amount of distress (r=0.721, p<0.001) and intensity of distress (r=0.757, p<0.001) showed significant high correlation with CDSS. As for QOL, frequency of AH (r=-0.419, p<0.01) and CDSS (r=0.435, p<0.01) showed significant moderate negative correlation, while duration, loudness, amount and intensity of distress, disruption to life and controllability of voices had significant fair correlation with QOL. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the frequency of AH (p=0.047), controllability of AH (p=0.027) and depressive symptoms (p=0.001) significantly predict QOL. Conclusion: Our results demonstrated that each dimension of AH had different contributions towards depressive symptoms and the QOL in patients with schizophrenia. Therefore, appropriate treatment focusing on the specific dimension of AH not only may reduce depressive symptoms, but may also improve QOL of these patients.

Depressive symptoms and depression in people screened positive for dementia in primary care – results of the DelpHi-study

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 929-937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen René Thyrian ◽  
Tilly Eichler ◽  
Melanie Reimann ◽  
Diana Wucherer ◽  
Adina Dreier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Delphi Study ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Adequate Treatment ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
People With Dementia

ABSTRACTBackground:Dementia and depression are common syndromes in the elderly. There is lack of knowledge concerning the frequency of depressive symptoms in people with dementia (PWD) and factors associated with depression. The aim of this analysis is to (a) describe the frequency of depressive symptoms in people screened positive for dementia, (b) describe differences between PWD with and without depressive symptoms, and (c) analyze associations between depressive symptoms and other dementia-related variables.Methods:Analyses are based on data of the GP-based intervention trial DelpHi-MV. A sample of 430 (6.29%) people screened positive for dementia in primary care was analyzed regarding depression according to the German version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS, 15-items), demographic variables, and dementia/depression-related variables. Multivariate analyses were conducted to identify factors associated with depressive symptoms.Results:The mean GDS-score of depressive symptoms inn= 430 PWD was m = 3.21 (SD 2.45) with 67 PWD (15.55%) showing clinically relevant depression (GDS < 5) m = 7.71 (SD = 1.92). A total ofn= 72 (16.74%) received a formal diagnosis of depression andn= 62 (14.42%) received antidepressive drug treatment. Depressive symptoms are significantly associated with age (OR = 0.93), functional impairment (OR = 1.36), and quality of life (OR = 0.01, CI: 0.00–0.06).Conclusion:Our results support previous findings that clinically relevant depressive symptoms are more common in people screened positive for dementia than in the general population and are often missed or mismanaged. Our findings underline the importance of managing quality of life, functional status, or depressive symptoms. Also, the results highlight the benefit of including the partner (and probably other carers) for adequate treatment of PWD.

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