BJP College Seminars Series
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Psychiatric Bulletin Advances in Psychiatric Treatment All RCPsych Journals
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Submit an eLetter
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Eagles, J. M.
Right arrow Articles by Restall, D. B.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Eagles, J. M.
Right arrow Articles by Restall, D. B.

The British Journal of Psychiatry 150: 303-308 (1987)
© 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

The mental health of elderly couples. II. Concordance for psychiatric morbidity in spouses

JM Eagles, LG Walker, GW Blackwood, JA Beattie and DB Restall
Ross Clinic, Aberdeen, Scotland.

A community sample of elderly married couples completed the 60-item General Health Questionnaire and the Leeds General Scales for the Self- Assessment of Depression and Anxiety. Significant concordance was demonstrated between the spouses' scores on these scales. Concordance was higher for depression than for anxiety. There was little to support previous findings that wives are more likely than husbands to be concordant with an ill spouse. The spouse concordance rates for psychiatric morbidity were similar to those found in studies of younger married couples.


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J Aging HealthHome page
M. J. Siegel, E. H. Bradley, W. T. Gallo, and S. V. Kasl
The Effect of Spousal Mental and Physical Health on Husbands' and Wives' Depressive Symptoms, Among Older Adults: Longitudinal Evidence From the Health and Retirement Survey
J Aging Health, June 1, 2004; 16(3): 398 - 425.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 BMJHome page
J M Eagles
Other studies were misrepresented
BMJ, May 11, 1996; 312(7040): 1224a - 1224.
[Full Text]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Psychiatric Bulletin Advances in Psychiatric Treatment All RCPsych Journals
Copyright © 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists.