Effects of a mutual recovery intervention on mental health in depressed elderly community-dwelling adults: a pilot study
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- 作者：Chao Wang ; Yujie Hua ; Hua Fu ; Longfeng Cheng ; Wen Qian ; Junyang Liu…
- 关键词：Mental health ; Depression ; Well ; being ; Intervention ; Elderly population
- 刊名：BMC Public Health
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：623KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2458
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundThe prevalence of depression in the elderly is growing worldwide, and the population aging in China makes depression a major health problem for the elderly adults and a tremendous burden to the society. Effective interventions should be determined to provide an approach solving the problem and improving the situation. This study examined the effectiveness of a mutual recovery program intervention on depressive symptom, sleep quality, and well-being in community-dwelling elderly adults with depressive symptom in Shanghai.