DSM-IV and ICD-10 describe dysthymia in a very similar way although there are significant differences. The differences are the consequence of the lack of sufficient scientific data in some points and the need to take a decision, but also to indicate areas for future research. Other differences...
‘cyclothymia’ by Kahlbaum and Hecker in 1877 and 1898. Dysthymia, in the definitions of DSM-IV and ICD-10, corresponds to Akiskal’s formulation: ‘Dysthymia then is depression with somewhat ‘muted’ but chronic or intermittent symptomatology’. Perhaps cyclothymia is also ‘somewhat ‘muted...
ICD-10DSM-IVdepressiondysthymiasubstance usediagnostic concordanceThe present study examined the diagnostic concordance between ICD-10 and DSM-IV in the depressive disorders, dysthymic disorder and substance dependence and substance harmful use/abuse disorder. The Composite International Diagnostic Interview (...
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is conducted to confirm eligibility for the study and to explore potential ICD-10 diagnoses that would require exclusion. At the same time, the M.I.N.I. is used to confirm the depression diagnosis (former or present). Participants who fulfil the eligibility criteria are informed about the ...
Introduction: Dysthymia is defined in ICD-10 as a chronic depression of mood which does not currently fulfil the criteria for recurrent depressive disorder, mild or moderate severity, in terms of either severity or duration of individual episodes. Although it only entered the psychiatric ...
Dysthymia was fairly recently included in the US(DSM) and WHO(ICD) classifications of mental disorders, because it characterises a prevalent clinical presentation of depression in both psychiatric and general medical settings. PatientsH.Department
Background Dysthymia has been reconceptualised in recent years from a personality disorder to a chronic affective disorder. It is incorporated into both the DSM and ICD diagnostic systems. Method....
(following ICD-10 and DSM-III criteria), between them: sociodemographical facts, family and personal previous psychiatric disease, clinic characteristics and therapeutical aspects (kind of therapy, evolution and response during 24 months).We've used: clinic history of the patient, personal interview...
The diagnoses were made according to ICD-10. Two scales of quality of life were used, one of which was specific for schizophrenia, while the other was generic for all patients. On inter-group comparison the two schizophrenia groups did not show significant differences in quality of life, but...