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Journal Article
Age differences in major depression: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)
2010
Overview
Although depression appears to decrease in late life, this could be due to misattribution of depressive symptom to physical disorders that increase in late life.
We studied age differences in major depressive episodes (MDE) in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a national survey of the US household population. DSM-IV MDE was defined without organic exclusions or diagnostic hierarchy rules to facilitate analysis of co-morbidity. Physical disorders were assessed with a standard chronic conditions checklist and mental disorders with the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) version 3.0.
Lifetime and recent DSM-IV/CIDI MDE were significantly less prevalent among respondents aged 65 years than among younger adults. Recent episode severity, but not duration, was also lower among the elderly. Despite prevalence of mental disorders decreasing with age, co-morbidity of hierarchy-free MDE with these disorders was either highest among the elderly or unrelated to age. Co-morbidity of MDE with physical disorders, in comparison, generally decreased with age despite prevalence of co-morbid physical disorders usually increasing. Somewhat more than half of respondents with 12-month MDE received past-year treatment, but the percentage in treatment was lowest and most concentrated in the general medical sector among the elderly.
Given that physical disorders increase with age independent of depression, their lower associations with MDE in old age argue that causal effects of physical disorders on MDE weaken in old age. This result argues against the suggestion that the low estimated prevalence of MDE among the elderly is due to increased confounding with physical disorders.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Subject
/ Adult
/ Adult and adolescent clinical studies
/ Adults
/ Aged
/ Aging
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Depressive Disorder, Major - diagnosis
/ Depressive Disorder, Major - epidemiology
/ Depressive Disorder, Major - psychology
/ Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
/ elderly
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Mental Disorders - diagnosis
/ Mental Disorders - epidemiology
/ Mental Disorders - psychology
/ Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
