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Prediction of first episode of clinical depression in patients newly admitted to a medical long‐term care facility: Findings from a prospective study
Author(s) -
Foster Jeffrey R.,
Cataldo Janine K.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/gps.930080404
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , hospital admission , discriminant function analysis , medicine , coping (psychology) , cohort , prospective cohort study , psychiatry , psychology , pediatrics , machine learning , computer science , economics , macroeconomics
A cohort of 104 patients newly admitted to a medical long‐term care facility was studied over 1 year for evolution of depression. Seven variables that were associated with level of depression were used in discriminant function analyses. Results showed that the variables had about 90% accuracy in predicting depressed versus non‐depressed groups with good sensitivity and specificity. The variables measured: coping with admission; life satisfaction at admission; affective and non‐affective symptoms at admission; clinical health status after admission; friends in hospital after admission; and changes in affective symptoms after admission before the onset of depression.