Chronic major depressive episode and dysthymia: comparison of demographic and clinical characteristics

Autor:	G. B. Cassano, M. Savino
Rok vydání:	1993
Předmět:	03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health medicine.medical_specialty 0302 clinical medicine business.industry mental disorders Medicine medicine.symptom business Major depressive episode Psychiatry 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 030227 psychiatry
Zdroj:	European Psychiatry. 8:277-279
ISSN:	1778-3585 0924-9338
DOI:	10.1017/s0924933800000353
Popis:	SummaryIn an attempt to better delineate demographic and clinical characteristics of mild chronic depressions, 46 outpatients fulfilling DSM III-R criteria for dysthymia were compared with patients suffering from a chronic major depressive episode. The profile obtained from our dysthymic sample matches with those reported by other authors. The comparison between “minor” and major chronic depression was also carried out by subdividing these latter into unipolar - recurrent and single episode - and bipolar depression. Dysthymics showed a bipolar family history closer to that of bipolar chronic major depressives which was significantly higher than that recorded in the other sub-categories.
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