Effective of supportive psychotherapy on the quality of life in relapsing patients with geriatric depression

Objective:To investigate the effective of supportive psychotherapy on the quality of life of relapsing patients with geriatric depression.Methods:Eighty cases of depression relapsing patients were divided into supportive psychotherapy(study group)and antidepressant therapy alone(control group) randomly,40 cases for each group.Application of the Geriatric Depression Scale(GDS) and easy determination of the quality of life of the World Health Organization Questionnaire in Chinese(WHO-QOL-BREF),were observed therapeutic effect before and after treatment and quality of life in two groups.Results:The study group was better than the control group significantly(P0.05).Both improved the quality of life of patients,psychological field and the field of social relations of the study group was better than the control group significantly(P0.05~P0.01).There was statistically significant in difference.Conclusions:Supportive psychotherapy can promote not only the treatment of relapse in patients with geriatric depression,but also improve the quality of life of patients.