Objectives: Depression may be under-diagnosed and under-treated amongst older adults with multiple chronic illnesses. The current study explores the prevalence of depression diagnosis and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) symptoms amongst older multimorbid outpatients, and agreement between GDS scores and doctor-diagnosed depression. Method: Deidentified data from the files of 452 patients aged ...

BACKGROUND Depressive disorders have been associated with a number of co-morbidities, and we hypothesized that patients with a depression diagnosis would be heavy users of health care services, not only when first evaluated for depression, but also for preceding years. The aim of this study was to investigate whether increased health care utilisation and co-morbidity could be seen during five y...

Background and aims: Depression disorder is one of the most common diseases, but the diagnosis is widely complicated and controversial because of interventions, overlapping and confusing nature of the disease. So, keeping previous patients’ profile seems effective for diagnosis and treatment of present patients. Use of this memory is latent in synthetic neuro-fuzzy algorithm. P...

Recent research from a number of clinical trials has shown that Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is efficacious, having shown comparable effects on primary anxiety disorder diagnoses as traditional diagnosis-specific CBT, and highly economical for treatment providers. However, a majority of anxiety disorder patients present with two or more “comorbid” diagnoses at once. Given that T...

BACKGROUND We examined whether smoking or drinking during or before the diagnosis-year of oral cancer or oral epithelial dysplasia (OED) was related to "subsequent depression" measured months after the oral diagnosis. METHODS Incident cases of oral cancer or OED were identified via 3 oral pathology laboratories. A telephone-administered questionnaire included questions on smoking/drinking his...

Introduction The present study aims to examine the process of mutual influence in older couples with cancer diagnosis by studying their risk depression. Materials and methods 282 one spouse diagnosed were selected from Three-City cohort study. Dyadic analyses used determine whether trait anxiety affects depression a occurs prior post diagnosis. Cross-sectional performed at two time-points: befo...