Journal article
Outcome at Discharge and Six Months in Major Depression: The Significance of Psychotic Features
The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.174(2), pp.92-96
02/1986
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198602000-00004
PMID: 3944599
Abstract
Inpatients with nonbipolar psychotic major depression (N = 46) had significantly lower Hamilton Rating Scale scores at discharge and a significantly greater number of weeks back to their “normal selves” during a 6-month follow-up than did patients with nonpsychotic major depression (N = 159). While both baseline severity and the receipt of electroconvulsive therapy distinguished these groups, neither accounted for the outcome differences noted. Severity ratings at discharge were clearly more predictive of follow-up course in psychotic patients than they were in nonpsychotic patients. Moreover, patients with psychotic depression had clearer outcomes in that their average follow-up weeks were more likely to involve either full syndromes or a complete absence of depressive symptoms. This finding, if replicated, may account in part for the lack of consensus on the prognostic significance of psychotic depression.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Outcome at Discharge and Six Months in Major Depression: The Significance of Psychotic Features
- Creators
- WILLIAM CORYELL - 1Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 500 Newton Road, Iowa City, Iowa 52242MARK ZIMMERMANBRUCE PFOHL
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.174(2), pp.92-96
- Publisher
- Williams & Wilkins
- DOI
- 10.1097/00005053-198602000-00004
- PMID
- 3944599
- ISSN
- 0022-3018
- eISSN
- 1539-736X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/1986
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984003933802771
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