Journal article
Long-term Outcome of Episodes of Major Depression: Clinical and Public Health Significance
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.252(6), pp.788-792
08/10/1984
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1984.03350060032024
PMID: 6748178
Abstract
Twenty-one percent (20/97) of patients with an episode of major depressive disorder and no history of chronic minor depression who sought treatment at five university medical centers had not recovered after two years of prospective follow-up. The rate of recovery was highest in the three months after entry into the study, with a notable decrease in rate after one year. Most patients who did not recover had severe depressive symptoms throughout the two years of follow-up. Long duration of episode before entry into the study, inpatient hospitalization status at entry, intact marriage, low family income, admitting research center, and a history of nonaffective psychiatric disorders (including alcoholism) predicted a chronic course. The implications of these findings for clinicians, researchers, and public health planners are discussed.(JAMA 1984;252:788-792)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Long-term Outcome of Episodes of Major Depression: Clinical and Public Health Significance
- Creators
- Martin B KellerGerald L KlermanPhilip W LavoriWilliam CoryellJean EndicottJohn Taylor
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.252(6), pp.788-792
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.1984.03350060032024
- PMID
- 6748178
- ISSN
- 0098-7484
- eISSN
- 1538-3598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/10/1984
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984004190902771
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