Journal article
An American validation study of the Newcastle Diagnostic Scale. II. Relationship with clinical, demographic, familial and psychosocial features
British journal of psychiatry, Vol.150(4), pp.526-532
04/1987
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.150.4.526
PMID: 3664135
Abstract
We completed the Newcastle Diagnostic Scale on 152 unipolar depressed in-patients: its validity was supported by the findings that endogenous depressives were, in contrast to neurotic depressives, older, more severely depressed, with better social support, fewer life events, less personality disorder, and a lower morbid risk of alcoholism and antisocial personality in their first-degree relatives. The relationship between Newcastle scores and the morbid risk for alcoholism was non-linear, such that a cut-off score of 4, rather than 5, maximised the difference between the endogenous and neurotic groups with respect to familial alcoholism rates as well as other validating variables.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- An American validation study of the Newcastle Diagnostic Scale. II. Relationship with clinical, demographic, familial and psychosocial features
- Creators
- M Zimmerman - University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Department of Psychiatry, Iowa City 52242W CoryellB PfohlD Stangl
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- British journal of psychiatry, Vol.150(4), pp.526-532
- Publisher
- England
- DOI
- 10.1192/bjp.150.4.526
- PMID
- 3664135
- ISSN
- 0007-1250
- eISSN
- 1472-1465
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/1987
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984003931102771
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