Academic Journal

Relationship between Frailty and Depression in a Population from North-Eastern Romania

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Relationship between Frailty and Depression in a Population from North-Eastern Romania
المؤلفون: Alexandra Maștaleru, Irina Mihaela Abdulan, Ramona Ștefăniu, Nicoleta Lefter, Ioana Alexandra Sandu, Anca Iuliana Pîslaru, Maria Magdalena Leon-Constantin, Ioana Dana Alexa, Adina Carmen Ilie
المصدر: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; Volume 19; Issue 9; Pages: 5731
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: frailty, depression, geriatric assessment, quality of life
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: (1) Background: In the older population, depression often affects people with chronic medical illnesses, cognitive impairment, or disability. Frailty is another important issue affecting older adults, being difficult to clinically distinguish from frailty in advanced old age. Well-designed interventional studies and clinical strategies targeting both frailty and depression are rare or nonexistent. (2) Methods: We realized a retrospective study in which we included a total of 411 patients that were admitted to the Geriatric Clinic from “Dr. C. I. Parhon” Hospital from Iasi for a period of 13 months. The aim of our study was to investigate the relationship between depression and frailty in a geriatric population due to the fact that the quality of life is negatively influenced by both frailty and depression. (3) Results: The prevalence of the depressive symptoms screened by the GDS-15 was 66.7%, with women being more depressed than men. Furthermore, an obvious relationship between depression and the dependence degree in performing daily activities has been observed. In addition, the mean MMSE score decreased with an increasing degree of depression. (4) Conclusions: Our study demonstrates the association between frailty and depression, one of them being a risk factor in the development of the other. A poor acknowledgment of the problem and an underdiagnosis of these conditions are important public health concerns due to the high healthcare costs. Thus, an active primary prevention would be imperiously needed in order to diagnose frailty and depression at an early stage, increasing the quality of life of the elderly and also their successful aging.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Aging; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095731
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19095731
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095731
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.FE867AB8
قاعدة البيانات: BASE