Psychiatric disturbances and the use of psychotropic drugs in apopulation of nonagenarians
Y. Forsell
Bok Engelsk 1997
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| Omfang | Side 533- 536
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| Opplysninger | The present study examined the prevalence of dementia, anxietysyndromes, depression, psychotic symptoms, sleep disturbance and theuse of psychotropic drugs in a population of 330 nonagenarians.Subjects underwent an extensive medical examination, and informationon sociodemographic characteristics, mental health, physical healthand psychotropic drug use was collected. The prevalence of dementiain the study sample was 46.7% according to DSM-III-R criteria.Demented persons had more often psychotic symptoms (11.7% versus3.4%) and anxiety syndromes (5.2% versus 1.1%) than non-demented.Depression was equally prevalent in both the demented and non-demented (8.4% versus 7.4%), whereas sleep disturbance was a morecommon complaint in non-demented persons. Half of the study sample(49.7%) used some sort of psychotropic drug, with the most commonbeing hypnotics and the least common being antidepressants. However,the rate of specific treatment was low, especially for depression,indicating the need for more knowledge concerning the recognition ofdepression in the very elderly. (C) 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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