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P2‐316: PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN LEBANON: PRELIMINARY DATA FROM BEIRUT AND MOUNT LEBANON
Author(s) -
El Asmar Khalil,
Chaaya Monique,
Phung Kieu T.T.,
Atweh Samir,
Ghosn Husam,
Khoury Rose Mary,
Prince Martin,
Waldemar Gunhild
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2014.05.995
Subject(s) - dementia , depression (economics) , medicine , anxiety , cluster sampling , gerontology , cross sectional study , psychiatry , demography , population , environmental health , disease , macroeconomics , economics , sociology , pathology
more conservative 4 points, compared to a 3 point cut-point, did not significantly change the findings. Conclusions: A clinically meaningful response at 9 months emerged as a stable pattern of improvement and deterioration as early as 4 months into a clinical trial. In considering symptomatic treatment, the intensity and the direction of the initial treatment response appears to be important in informing long term outcomes. Of note, even a one-point change in goal attainment scaling Scores earlysuggest longer term trends.
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