@article{ref1,
title="Social Support Resources and Post-Acute Recovery for Older Adults with Major Depression",
journal="Community mental health journal",
year="2013",
author="Li, Hong and Morrow-Howell, Nancy and Proctor, Enola and Rubin, Eugene",
volume="49",
number="4",
pages="419-426",
abstract="This study assessed the relationships between older patients' social support resources and depressive symptoms and psychosocial functioning at 6 months following a psychiatric hospital discharge. The data used in this study were extracted from a prospective study titled &quot;Service Use of Depressed Elders after Acute Care&quot; (National Institute of Mental Health-56208). This sample included 148 older patients who participated in the initial and the 6-month follow-up assessment. Ordinary Least Squares regression (OLS) was used to examine important social support resources in relation to older patients' depressive symptoms and psychosocial functioning. A vast majority of patients were embedded in a social support network that consisted of acquaintances and confidants. Patients' depressive symptoms were related to availability of a confidant and the extent to which they spent time with others. However, patients' psychosocial functioning was not related to social support resources assessed in this study.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0010-3853",
doi="10.1007/s10597-012-9567-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-012-9567-1"
}