Anxiety and somatic symptoms among elderly patients with depression.

CONCLUSION: The present study suggests that there is a higher prevalence of anxiety and somatic symptoms in elderly patients with depression and GDS-30 is unable to capture all the symptoms of depression among elderly in the Indian context. Hence, complete assessment of depression in elderly should include assessment of anxiety and somatic symptoms by using other scales like GAD-7,BDI-II and PHQ-15. There is a need to develop a new scale which will be helpful in capturing the entire symptom profile of depression among elderly. PMID: 30054249 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Asian J Psychiatr Source Type: research