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Self-perceived and reported mental health in older adults
(Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Zamora Iniesta, Tomás; Castell Gallud, Pedro; Vicente Escudero, José Luís; López Soler, Concepción; Castro Sáez, Maravillas; Fernández Fernández, María Visitación
Several studies assess mental health in older adults, but relatively few do so from a multi-informant perspective. In this work, discrepancies in self-perception and third-person perception of the mental health of older adults were analyzed in two age groups and differentiated by sex and place of residence. Relationships between different scales that measure psychopathology and psychosocial competencies were also analyzed. A sample of 288 older people aged between 60-95 years old (154 women, 53.47%) belonging to 12 municipalities in the Region of Murcia was em-ployed, and the Older Adult Self-Report (OASR) questionnaire was used to measure the psychopathology of older people and the Older Adult Be-havior Checklist (OABCL) instrument to find out the family's perception of these problems. Outcomes show different perceptions of mental health among older peo-ple and their families, which worsen with increasing age, psychosocial risk status and female gender. This reflects the need to develop specific treat-ment protocols for each gender and psychosocial risk situation, in order to address the differential mental health needs in older people.