Development of the EURO–D scale – a European Union initiative to compare symptoms of depression in 14 European centres

Prince, Martin; Reischies, Friedel M.; Beekman, Aartjan T.F.; Fuhrer, Rebecca; Jonker, Cees; Kivelä, Sirkka‐Liisa; Lawlor, Brian A.; Lobo, Antonio; Magnusson, H.; Fichter, Manfred M.; Oyen, Herman Van; Roelands, Marc; Skoog, Ingmar; Turrina, Cesare; Copeland, J. R. M.

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“…Se valoraron con la escala EURO-D, compuesta por 12 ítems (presencia de síntomas depresivos, pesimismo, deseos de muerte, culpa, irritabilidad, llanto, fatiga, problemas de sueño, pérdida de interés y de apetito, reducción de la capacidad de concentración y de la capacidad de disfrute en el último mes) cuyo punto de corte es ≥4 4,33 . Las respuestas eran dicotómicas, presencia o ausencia, con un rango de 0-12 puntos.…”

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Depresión y variables asociadas en personas mayores de 50 años en España

Portellano-Ortiz

Garré-Olmo

Calvó-Perxas

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Revista de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental

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Depresión y variables asociadas en personas mayores de 50 años en España

Portellano-Ortiz

Garré-Olmo

Calvó-Perxas

et al. 2018

Revista de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental

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“…The report of any limitations in the activities of daily living (ADL) 4 and in the instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) 5 can be viewed as more objective, as the individual has no reason to relate this rather factual information directly to her health. As a measure for clinical depression, the EURO-D scale (see Prince et al, 1999a) has been implemented in SHARE, where, as was validated in Prince et al (1999b), an indicator for a score of at least four on the scale is taken as a measure for clinical depression. The final objective measure is orientation in time,…”

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Jobless now, sick later? Investigating the long-term consequences of involuntary job loss on health

Schröder

2013

Advances in Life Course Research

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIn the light of the current economic crises which in many countries lead to business closures and mass lay-offs, the consequences of job loss are important on various dimensions. They have to be investigated not only in consideration of a few years, but with a long-term perspective as well, because early life course events may prove important for later life outcomes. This paper uses data from SHARELIFE to shed light on the long-term consequences of involuntary job loss on health.The paper distinguishes between two different reasons for involuntary job loss: plant closures, which in the literature are considered to be exogenous to the individual, and lay-offs, where the causal direction of health and unemployment is ambiguous. These groups are separately compared to those who never experienced a job loss. The paper uses eleven different measures of health to assess long-term health consequences of job loss, which has to have occurred at least 25 years before the current interview. As panel data cannot be employed, a large body of variables, including childhood health and socio-economic conditions, is used to control for the initial conditions.The findings suggest that individuals with an exogenous job loss suffer in the long run: men are significantly more likely to be depressed and they have more trouble knowing the current date. Women report poorer general health and more chronic conditions and are also affected in their physical health: they are more likely to be obese or overweight, and to have any limitations in their (instrumental) activities of daily living. In the comparison group of laid-off individuals, controlling for the initial conditions reduces the effects of job loss on healthproving that controlling for childhood conditions is important.3

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“…(7) Depression as measured by the Euro-Depression (Euro-D), a scale of depression symptoms validated for the European population. A EURO-D score higher than three is indicative of a depressive symptomatology and was used to dichotomise this variable [18].…”

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Are different measures of self-rated health comparable? An assessment in five European countries

2008

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Objective: Self-rated health (SRH) is widely used to compare population health across countries, but comparability is often hampered by the use of different versions of this item. This study compares the WHO recommended version (ranging from 'very good' to 'very bad') with the US version (ranging from 'excellent' to 'poor') in European countries. Methods: Data came from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Both the WHO and US versions of SRH were measured in representative samples of Europeans aged 50? (n = 11,643) in five countries. Concordance between the two SRH versions and differences in their associations with demographics, chronic diseases, functioning and depression were assessed using ordered probit regression. Results: The US version has a more symmetric distribution and larger variance than the WHO version. Although the WHO version discriminates better at the positive end, the US version shows better discrimination at the positive end of the scale. Sixty-nine percent of respondents provided literally concordant answers, while only about one-third provided relatively concordant answers. Overall, however, less than 10% of respondents were discordant in either sense. The two versions were strongly correlated (polychoric correlation = 0.88), had similar associations with demographics and health indicators, and showed a similar pattern of international variation. Conclusion: Health levels based on different measurements of SRH are not directly comparable and require rescaling of items. However, both versions represent parallel assessments of the same latent health variable. We did not find evidence that the WHO version is preferable to the US version as standard measure of SRH in European countries.

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Development of the EURO–D scale – a European Union initiative to compare symptoms of depression in 14 European centres

Abstract: The EURO-D scale should permit valid comparison of risk-factor associations between centres, even if between-centre variation remains difficult to attribute.

Cited by 650 publications

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Depresión y variables asociadas en personas mayores de 50 años en España

Depresión y variables asociadas en personas mayores de 50 años en España

Jobless now, sick later? Investigating the long-term consequences of involuntary job loss on health

Are different measures of self-rated health comparable? An assessment in five European countries

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