AGE AND GENDER FEATURES OF DEPRESSIVE AND ANXIETY SYMPTOMATICS OF DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS

Abstract

The aim: of the study is to study the features of the clinical phenomenology of depressive disorders at the present stage, taking into account gender and age factors. Materials and methods: Clinically examined 107 men and 138 women with bipolar affective disorder (current episode of depression), depressive episode and recurrent depressive disorder using HDRS, HARS, BDI, C. Spilberger’s Scale of Reactive and Personality Anxiety. Results: In all patients showed an increase in the severity of depression and anxiety with age, but in women the greatest differences were found between the middle and older age groups, and in men when comparing young and middle age groups. In young patients the level of agitated depression is higher for men, and women showed the higher overall level of anxiety, somatic anxiety, undifferentiated depression, reactive and personality anxiety. In patients aged 30-44, men have a significantly higher overall score of HARS depression, the level of adynamic, agitated and undifferentiated depression, the level of depression on BDI. In the older age group, the levels of depression in men and women are not significantly different, and the levels of mental anxiety and personality anxiety in women are significantly higher. Conclusions: The general tendency consisting in increasing the severity of depression with age, and more pronounced indicators of depression in men, and anxiety in women. In men, the greatest increase in the severity of depression occurs before the age of 44 years, and in women after 45 years.