Psychiatric Morbidity Among the Elderly in a Primary Care Setting—report From a Survey in São Paulo, Brazil

Common Mental Disorders in Patients Undergoing Lower Limb Amputation: A Population‐based Sample

“…The results have shown that being able to perform basic functions allows a return to community life that is enhanced by the aesthetic function of the prosthesis and has an important influence on psychosocial adaptation to this procedure. The present study showed that female patients presented a positive score in the screening for psychological disorders, a situation that has been reported by several authors [13,24]. This may be associated with a stronger propensity toward anxiety and depression [4].…”

“…The present study showed that female patients presented a positive score in the screening for psychological disorders, a situation that has been reported by several authors [13, 24]. This may be associated with a stronger propensity toward anxiety and depression [4].…”

Prevalence of mental disorders in non-demented elderly people in primary care

“…These rates are similar to those reported in the PC population in the Linkoping (Olafsdóttir et al, 2001) study in 2001 in Sweden (17%, excluding dementia patients) with a sample of 350 patients older than 70 years. However, our rates are lower than those reported by Almeida (Almeida et al, 1997) in 1997 or Olivera (Olivera et al, 2008) in 2008 in Huesca (Spain). Almeida assessed a sample of 351 patients over 60 years old in Brazil and found that more than one-third (33.1%) had a mental disorder.…”

Depressive morbidity and gender in community-dwelling Brazilian elderly: systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Initially, 129 studies were found (45 from Pubmed, 31 from SciELO, and 53 from LILACS). After excluding overlapping studies and articles that did not evaluate depressive morbidity, the initial set contained 28 studies, of which eight were excluded that used outpatient, hospital, or institutional samples (Almeida et al, 1997;Paradela et al, 2005;Leite et al, 2006;Oliveira et al, 2006;Duarte and Rego, 2007;Borges et al, 2007;Irigaray and Schneider, 2007;Siqueira et al, 2009) and one study in which the authors investigated depression symptoms alone, which did not give an average prevalence that would allow its conclusion in the data analysis (Gazalle et al, 2004). Three studies that worked with the same sample group were analyzed together (Cupertino et al, 2006;Batistoni et al, 2007;Fortes-Burgos et al, 2008), and only the study that yielded information that corresponded to the objective of this research was cited (Cupertino et al, 2006).…”