Cross-ethnic evaluation of XXXX symptom content in hospitalized middle-aged and older adults.

@entity1 @entity146 @entity914 @entity1833 @entity716 @entity10963 @entity7634
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine ethnic differences in the content of delusions and @entity1833 among a tri-ethnic sample of adult @entity146 inpatients older than 40 years who were hospitalized with an @entity716 . METHODS: A chart review of inpatient episodes for 133 middle-aged and older adult @entity1 (31 African Americans, 50 Latinos, and 52 @entity7634 -Americans) with a mean age of 50 years was performed at an acute behavioral medicine unit at a university hospital. All @entity1 were diagnosed with a severe @entity914 . The content and frequency of @entity716 symptoms were systematically reviewed using a structured checklist and comparisons across ethnic groups were made using chi(2) statistics. RESULTS: Ethnic group differences were found in the contents and subtypes of delusions and @entity1833 . Significant ethnic differences were found in symptom content, consistent with findings from studies on younger samples of inpatients. @entity7634 -Americans were nearly twice as likely as Latinos to report delusions of grandiosity. African Americans were more likely than Latinos to report general @entity10963 . Latinos reported more culturally influenced contents than the other groups. CONCLUSION: Raising provider awareness of ethnic variation in symptom expression is a key step in the process of developing effective treatments for ethnically diverse middle-aged and older @entity1 populations.
