Differentiating clinical and non-clinical depression: a heuristic study offering a template for extension studies.
Acta Psychiatr Scand
; 141(4): 340-349, 2020 04.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31742655
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To differentiate clinical and non-clinical depression via a set of symptoms.METHODS:
A sample of 140 patients attending a clinical service for those with mood disorders together with 40 subjects denying ever experiencing a clinical episode of depression were compared, with participants completing a questionnaire capturing many symptoms of depression as well as illness correlates.RESULTS:
A latent class analysis of symptom data identified two classes and with class assignment corresponding strongly with initial clinical vs. non-clinical assignment. Univariate analyses identified the extent to which individual symptoms contributed to differentiation. Study data suggested DSM criteria that would benefit from re-writing or of reassignment. Two models for classifying clinical depression were generated. The first involved individuals feeling hopeless and also being suicidal or at risk of self-harm. The second involved a symptom set corresponding to DSM-5 criteria but with only five making significant independent contributions to diagnostic differentiation.CONCLUSION:
The study is heuristic in offering a strategy for more precisely differentiating clinical and non-clinical depression in more representative samples, so allowing resolution of key features, and determining whether a monothetic or polythetic diagnostic symptom criterion model is optimal.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Depressão
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article