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S204

24th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S116–S348

Aims

Early identification of prenatal depressionwill decrease the

risk of pregnancy complications and postnatal depression.

Methods

A prospective study enrolled pregnant women admit-

ted at

3

24 gestational weeks due to threatened preterm labour

in a university hospital HRPU, between 9/2014 and 11/2015. The

Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was used to assess

depressive symptoms and a cut-off score

3

13 was considered as

indicative of depression. Test results were then correlated with the

indication for admission, demographic and socio-economic param-

eters.

Results

Overall, 80 of the women admitted in the HRPU were eli-

gible for the study and agreed to complete the questionnaire. The

mean age was 29.4

±

6.23 years and the mean gestational week

at the admission was 31.6

±

3.33 weeks. The prevalence of prena-

tal depression (score

3

13) was 25% (20/80). In the multivariable

model, depression was significantly correlated with the existence

of thoughts for pregnancy termination [

P

= .03 OR = 4.560 95% CI:

(1.162–17.892)].

Conclusions

One quarter of pregnant women admitted in the

HRPU with the indication of threatened preterm labour may suf-

fer from clinically significant depression. An unwanted pregnancy

was found to be independently associatedwith prenatal depression

whereas no association was found with any obstetric parameters.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.378

EW261

Descriptive epidemiology of

depressive and anxiety disorders,

cognitive impairment and dementia

in a sample of elderly patients in the

geriatric unity of a general hospital

A. Pater

1 ,

, Y . E

spolio Desbaillet

2 , D.

Peris

3

1

Hôpital Neuchâtelois, Gériatrie, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2

Centre Neuchâtelois, Gériatrie, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

3

Centre Neuchâtelois de Psychiatrie, Hôpital de Préfargier,

Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Corresponding author.

Introduction

Studies have demonstrated the high prevalence of

depressive disorders amongst elderly people and their underesti-

mation and mistreatment.

Objective

The aim of this study is to describe epidemiological

issues in a sample of elderly hospitalized patients, giving special

attention on the prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders

and the detection of potential risk factors.

Material and methods

The sample included 168 elderly patients

referred for the geriatric unit of a general hospital. Epidemiolog-

ical and clinical data were collected. Geriatric Depression Scale

(GDS),MiniMental State Examination (MMSE) and Functional Inde-

pendence Measure (FIM

TM

) were used. Data were analyzed with

XLSTAT program.

Results

The 39% of the sample were men and the 61% women,

with an age range between 65 and 95 years. Nine percent of patients

aged 65–84 had a diagnosis of depressive or anxious-depressive

disorder, compared to 13% within the age range 85–95. However,

14% of patients aged 65–85 had a GDS higher than 5 and 19% for

the patients aged 85–95, which could confirm the underestimated

rate of depression diagnosed in elderly patients. Item “feeling lone-

liness” was pointed out in 75% and item “feeling bored” in 64% of

all GDS higher than 5. Prevalence of dementia was 8% in the whole

sample.

Conclusions

High prevalence of depressive and anxious disor-

ders amongst the elderly is to be taken in account. Potential risk

factors could be loneliness and lack of daily activity. The devel-

opment of social primary prevention interventions in order to

decrease the prevalence of these pathologies amongst elderly is

needed.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.379

EW262

Making sense of economic deprivation

as a predictor of suicide and homicide:

A nationwide register-study

M. Pompili

1 ,

, M .

Vichi

2

1

Rome, Italy

2

National Institute of Health, National Centre for Epidemiology,

Surveillance and Health Promotion, Rome, Italy

Corresponding author.

Introduction

Classical work on lethal aggression often viewed

suicide and homicide as sharing a common source.

Objective

The present investigation explores the association

between measures of social deprivation on the relative incidence

of suicide over homicide in Italian provinces.

Methods

Data refer to official government sources on lethal

violence rates and measures of social deprivation. The central

dependent variable is termed SHR or the suicide rate expressed

as a proportion of the sum of the suicide and homicide rates Data

were available for the 103 Italian provinces.

Results

The SHR had three significant predictors. The greater the

percentage of the population with low education, the lesser the

tendency towards suicide. The tendency towards suicide was also

predicted by rental housing, the greater the percentage of the popu-

lation living in rental housing the less the tendency towards suicide.

The inverse of the unemployment rate also predicted the SHR.

Given that the measure follows an inverse function, the greater the

unemployment rate the lesser the tendency towards suicide rela-

tive to homicide (SHR). We can interpret the results relative to a

homicidal tendency in the SHR: the greater the low education per-

centage of the population, the greater the homicidal tendency, and

the greater the rental housing percentage, the greater the homicidal

tendency in the SHR.

Conclusion

The results are consistent with a stream of previous

research that connects deprivation with a relatively high probabil-

ity for disadvantaged populations to direct aggression outwardly

in the form of homicide rather than inwardly in the form of suicide.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.380

EW263

Structure and function of social

networks, loneliness, and their

association with mental disorders

among older men and women in

Ireland: A prospective

community-based study

Z. Santini

1 ,

, K .L

. Fiori

2 , 3 , S . T

yrovolas

1 , J.M

. Haro

1 , J. F

eeney

4 ,

A. Koyanagi

1

1

Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, Recerca, Barcelona, Spain

2

Adelphi University, Garden City, N.Y., USA

3

Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, NY,

USA

4

Queen’s University Belfast, School of Medicine, Dentistry and

Biomedical Sciences, Belfast, United Kingdom

Corresponding author.

Introduction

Interpersonal stressors and social isolation are

detrimental for emotional health, but how these factors are related