The Use of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression in Elderly Patients With Cognitive Impairment and Physical Illness

The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry : Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
B H MulsantG S Zubenko

Abstract

The authors performed a prospective study to assess the impact of cognitive impairment and medical burden on the Hamilton Ratingh Scale for Depression (Ham-D) scores in older psychiatric inpatients. Over 1 year, all patients admitted to an acute-care geriatric psychiatry unit were assessed with an instrument that includes an anchored version of the 17-uten Ham-D. Ham-D scores of 72 patients who met DSM-III-R criteria for a major depressive episode were compared with the scores of 31 patients who did not. The scores of a depressed and nondepressed patients were significantly different on admission but not at discharge. By contrast, the Ham-D scores of 11 depressed patients with a primary dementia did not differ either on admission or at discharge from the scores of 61 depressed patients without dementia. Controlling for psychiatric diagnosis, cognitive impairment had no significant effect on Ham-D scores. Medical burden accounted for less than 6% of the variance in admission Ham-D yields valid ratings of the severity of depressive symptoms in elderly patients with a broad range of cognitive impairment and physical illness.

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