PMID- 31582195 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200831 LR - 20201201 IS - 1545-7214 (Electronic) IS - 1064-7481 (Print) IS - 1064-7481 (Linking) VI - 27 IP - 12 DP - 2019 Dec TI - Negative Emotions and the Course of Depression During Psychotherapy in Suicidal Older Adults With Depression and Cognitive Impairment. PG - 1287-1295 LID - S1064-7481(19)30491-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jagp.2019.08.018 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVE: The study examines the relationship of negative emotions with: 1) non-emotional symptoms (e.g., vegetative and physical symptoms) and 2) the course of depression in suicidal older adults with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and cognitive impairment treated with psychotherapy. DESIGN: The authors identified a subgroup of participants (N = 26) who expressed suicidal ideation at Baseline or Week 12 from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of two psychosocial interventions, Problem Adaptation Therapy (PATH) and Supportive Therapy for Cognitively Impaired. The authors assessed negative emotions, non-emotional symptoms of depression, depression severity, and suicidal ideation at entry, week 4, week 8, and week 12. PARTICIPANTS: Participants were 65 years and older and had a diagnosis of unipolar depression, varying degrees of cognitive impairment (up to moderate dementia) and suicidal ideation. SETTING: The study was conducted in the Outpatient Department of New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine in Westchester, NY. MEASUREMENTS: Negative emotions and non-emotional items were identified with the 24-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (Ham-D). RESULTS: Among participants with suicidal ideation, the reduction in negative emotions from baseline to week 4, week 4 to week 8, and week 8 to week 12 was significantly associated with the reduction in non-emotional symptoms of depression at weeks 4, 8, and 12 (F((1, 35)) = 6.20, p = 0.02) and with the reduction in overall depression severity at weeks 4, 8, and 12 (F((1, 35)) = 26.63, p <0.0001) after controlling for depression severity at baseline (HAM-D total score) and time trends. CONCLUSION: Our findings may guide the treatment of older patients with depression and suicidal ideation to help reduce depression and suicide risk. CI - Copyright (c) 2019 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Arslanoglou, Elizabeth AU - Arslanoglou E AD - Weill-Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry (EA, SB, JP, LE, DNK), Weill Cornell Medicine, White Plains, NY. FAU - Banerjee, Samprit AU - Banerjee S AD - Weill-Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry (EA, SB, JP, LE, DNK), Weill Cornell Medicine, White Plains, NY. FAU - Pantelides, Joanna AU - Pantelides J AD - Weill-Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry (EA, SB, JP, LE, DNK), Weill Cornell Medicine, White Plains, NY. FAU - Evans, Laurie AU - Evans L AD - Weill-Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry (EA, SB, JP, LE, DNK), Weill Cornell Medicine, White Plains, NY. FAU - Kiosses, Dimitris N AU - Kiosses DN AD - Weill-Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry (EA, SB, JP, LE, DNK), Weill Cornell Medicine, White Plains, NY. Electronic address: dkiosses@med.cornell.edu. LA - eng SI - ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT00368940 GR - P50 MH113838/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 MH085943/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R33 MH110542/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R61 MH110542/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH091045/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Randomized Controlled Trial DEP - 20190826 PL - England TA - Am J Geriatr Psychiatry JT - The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry JID - 9309609 SB - IM CIN - Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2019 Dec;27(12):1296-1298. PMID: 31564528 MH - Aged MH - Aged, 80 and over MH - Cognitive Dysfunction/*psychology MH - Depression/physiopathology/psychology/*therapy MH - Depressive Disorder, Major/physiopathology/psychology/*therapy MH - Emotions MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Male MH - *Psychotherapy MH - Severity of Illness Index MH - *Suicidal Ideation PMC - PMC6985925 MID - NIHMS1543450 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Suicide/self-harm OT - cognitive impairment OT - depression OT - elderly OT - negative emotions COIS- Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding: The authors of the article declared no conflicts of interest. EDAT- 2019/10/05 06:00 MHDA- 2020/09/01 06:00 PMCR- 2020/12/01 CRDT- 2019/10/05 06:00 PHST- 2019/06/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/08/19 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/08/20 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/10/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/09/01 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/10/05 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S1064-7481(19)30491-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jagp.2019.08.018 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2019 Dec;27(12):1287-1295. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2019.08.018. Epub 2019 Aug 26.