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The Association of Recurrent Affective Disorders with Functional Capabilities in the Subjects Over 60 Yeras of Age. a Preliminary Findings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

W. Rachel ,
S. Krupnik ,
W. Datka ,
D. Dudek  and
M. Zak
W. Rachel
Affiliation:
Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum, Department of Psychiatry, Krakow, Poland
S. Krupnik
Affiliation:
University, Physical Education, Krakow, Poland
W. Datka
Affiliation:
Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum, Department of Affective Disorders, Krakow, Poland
D. Dudek
Affiliation:
Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum, Department of Affective Disorders, Krakow, Poland
M. Zak
Affiliation:
University of Physical Education, Department of Physical Rehabilitation in Rheumatology and Geriatrics, Krakow, Poland

Abstract

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Introduction

Major depressive disorder (MDD) in the older adults is correlated with a significant decline in daily physical activity, consequently resulting in chronically impaired quality of life and an increased exposure to falls-risk.

Objectives

Establishing whether geriatric depression Scale (GDS) scores, found correlated with dual motor tasks (TUGTMAN), are also correlated under the cognitive test constraints (TUGCOG).

Aims

The study aimed to analyse the relationship of MDD symptoms, the number of depressive episodes and hospitalisations, with the efficiency of gait in single and dual task conditions, motor and cognitive, functional capabilities.

Methods

The study was conducted in the outpatient clinic, university hospital, department of psychiatry, Krakow, on 30 patients over 60 years of age presenting recurrent MDD. The assessment consisted of GDS, MMSE, TUGT, TUGMAN, TUGCOG, 30sChS, SLS. Spearman rho rank correlation was applied to determine the relationship between the variables.

Results

Statistical analysis showed a significant association between the intensity of depressive symptoms expressed in the GDS and the number of completed episodes and depression and TUGT. The number of hospitalisations was associated with gait under motor (TUGMAN) and cognitive (TUGCOG) constraints.

Conclusion

Duration of the disorder and the number of hospital admissions are related to the functional efficiency of the single and dual-task performance in the persons suffering from this disorder for at least 10 years. Aged persons should effectively be encouraged to undertake physical activities.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: Old age psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S663
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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