In this study 78 drug free outpatients (age: 44.74 +/- 11.9, F/M: 2.4) were selected according to DSM-IV criteria and the score obtained on the Montgomery and Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). They were also evaluated by applying the Hamilton...
Psychiatric Association (APA) now calls persistent depressive disorder is actually a fusion of two earlier disorders: chronic major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder. Those two disorders were combined in the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Disorders, or DSM-5. ...
DSM-IV: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders GP: General practitioner IBIs: Internet based Interventions iCBT: Internet based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy IDS-C: Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology – clinician rated IDS-SR: Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology – self-rating ...
Clinicians who routinely use operational diagnostic criteria (ODC) had more correct diagnoses than those who did not. Approximately 70% of psychiatrists who routinely use ODC chose selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRI) as the first choice of treatment, while of those psychiatrists who do ...
The aim of present research was to test this hypothesis by using new instruments that has been designed to measure multiple metacognitive factors.Method: Fifty-eight students referred to university counseling centers in Tehran who met the diagnostic criteria of DSM-IV-TR for dysthymia (n=21), ...
Method: A total of 177 out-patients with primary dysthymia and 187 outpatients with episodic major depression were administered a structured diagnostic interview for DSM-III-R Axis II disorders. In addition, all of these patients completed the BDI, and those with the appropriate level of education...
Only in recent years have studies performed with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) supplied comparable data. They support the evidence of higher prevalence rates of major depression (DSM-IIIR criteria) in European than in US and Canadian community studies carried out in the ...