The Mental Health of Elderly Couples II. Concordance for Psychiatric Morbidity in Spouses
The British Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 March 1987
John Eagles, L. G. Walker, G. W. Blackwood, J. A. G. Beattie, D. B. Restall
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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 and significant concordance was demonstrated between the spouses' scores on these scales.
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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.
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