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Depressive symptoms linked to worse mental and physical quality of life in hospitalized medical patients.
Depressive symptoms and older age are associated with worse physical and mental health-related quality of life in hospitalized non-psychiatric patients.
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May warrant depression screening in medical inpatients; cross-sectional data leaves open causality and intervention effects.
• This is a multicentric cross-sectional study assessing HRQoL in hospitalized non-psychiatric medical patients. • HRQoL in these patients is lower than that reported in the general population. • Depressive symptoms impair not only the mental domain of HRQoL but also the physical domain. • Being older is also associated with lower levels of the physical composite of the HRQoL.
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Daray et al. (2021) studied this question. Depressive symptoms impair both the mental and physical domains of health-related quality of life in hospitalized non-psychiatric medical patients.
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