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The negative, mood-congruent cognitive bias described in depression, as well as excessive rumination, have been found to interfere with emotional processing. This study focuses on the assessment of facial recognition of emotions in patients with depression through a new set of dynamic virtual faces (DVFs). The sample consisted of 54 stable patients compared to 54 healthy controls. The experiment consisted in an emotion recognition task using non-immersive virtual reality (VR) with DVFs of six basic emotions and neutral expression. Patients with depression showed a worst performance in facial affect recognition compared to healthy controls. Age of onset was negatively correlated with emotion recognition and no correlation was observed for duration of illness or number of lifetime hospitalizations. There was no correlation for the depression group between emotion recognition and degree of psychopathology, excessive rumination, degree of functioning, or quality of life. Hence, it is important to improve and validate VR tools for emotion recognition to achieve greater methodological homogeneity of studies and to be able to establish more conclusive results.
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Depressão , Reconhecimento Facial , Humanos , Qualidade de Vida , Expressão Facial , EmoçõesRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Social functioning impairment has been described in several psychiatric illness, including depressive disorders. It is associated with a deterioration in global functioning and quality of life, thus there is a growing interest in psychosocial functioning remediation interventions. This systematic review aims to review all psychotherapeutic, pharmacological and biological social functioning interventions in depressive disorders. METHODS: A systematic search was conducted on PubMed, PsycINFO and Scopus from the first articles to 2019 following the PRISMA guidelines. 72 original papers were extracted from an initial number of 1827, based on the selected eligibility criteria. RESULTS: A growing body of research was observed in the last 10 years, with most studies showing a low level of scientific evidence. The main diagnosis found was major depressive disorder and the principal social cognition domains assessed were emotional processing and attributional style. The type of intervention most found was the pharmacological one, followed by psychotherapeutic interventions classified as "non-specific. The efficacy of treatments showed an improvement in depressive symptoms and positive results for emotional processing and attributional style. LIMITATIONS: Because there is a lack of well-controlled designs and really few interventions focusing on its remediation, and low homogeneity on the assessment of social aspects across, a comparison of results and the extraction of general conclusions is quite difficult. CONCLUSIONS: Although a promising body of literature has been developed in recent years on the improvement of psychosocial functioning in patients with depressive disorders, more studies are needed to clarify relevant aspects in this area.
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Transtorno Depressivo Maior , Cognição , Transtorno Depressivo Maior/terapia , Humanos , Qualidade de Vida , Percepção SocialRESUMO
A pesar de que en España el suicidio supone la primera causa de muerte externa, no existe a nivel nacional un plan de prevención o intervención protocolizado. Este estudio tiene como objetivo final el diseño, la implementación y la evaluación de un nuevo programa de prevención del riesgo de suicidio en el Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, llamado «RENACE». Para ello, se describe el perfil sociodemográfico y clínico de los pacientes con ideación y con conducta suicida. Se obtuvieron los siguientes resultados: la mayoría de pacientes fueron mujeres (59%) y el grupo etario más prevalente fue el de 31 a 65 años. Entre la población infantojuvenil, predominó el rango de edad de 14 a 17 años. En cuanto al perfil clínico, el diagnóstico principal fue trastornos relacionados con traumas y factores de estrés, seguido de trastornos depresivos. (AU)
Despite the fact that suicide is the leading cause of external death in Spain, there is no protocolized prevention or intervention plan at national level. The final aim of this study is the design, implementation and evaluation of a new suicide risk prevention program at the Albacete University Hospital Complex, called "RENACE". For this purpose, the sociodemographic and clinical profile of patients with suicidal ideation and behavior was described. The following results were obtained: the majority of patients were women (59%) and the most prevalent age group was 31 to 65 years old. Among the juvenile population, the predominant age range was 14 to 17 years. Regarding the clinical profile, the main diagnosis was trauma-related disorders and stress factors, followed by depressive disorders. (AU)