The question of research into the quality of life of patients with recurrent depressive disorders in advanced age
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The clinico-anamnestic method, perimental-psychological methods and the statistical methods were used for examining the dependence between the types of personality of advanced age patients suffering from recurrent depressive disorders and psychopathological of depression and the effect of psychopathological picture of depression on quality of life (QOL) of patients. The results indicate that for patients suffering from recurrent depressive disorder factors like degree of depressive disorder on discharge, patients' age and duration of hospitalization affect the QOL.
Publication Name: International Journal of Mental Health
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0020-7411
Year: 2004
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The influence of somatoneurological decompensations in the course of old-age depressive disorders
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A special scientific research was carried out on the problem of the influence of somatoneurological decompensation (SND) on the clinic and treatment of mental diseases, which included those of depressive spectrum in elderly and old-age patients. The research that was carried out at the Department of Geriatric Psychiatry of the V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute observed 50 patients with affective mood disorders.
Publication Name: International Journal of Mental Health
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0020-7411
Year: 2005
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A comparison of the main quality-of-life parameters of elderly depressed patients and aged mental patients of other nosological groups
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The Department of Gerontopsychiatry of the St. Petersburg V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute carried out a research to compare the quality-of-life of elderly mental patients with different nosological groups. The data provide proof that patients with schizophrenia and organic brain damages of various genesis assess the quality-of-life over the basic parameters similarly.
Publication Name: International Journal of Mental Health
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0020-7411
Year: 2005
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