Psychological morbidity of hirsute women
| Autor: | B. H. Hicks, Jill E. Dixon, Michael Chapman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Gynecology
medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study Obstetrics business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Population Beck Depression Inventory Obstetrics and Gynecology Mean age medicine.disease Ferriman–Gallwey score medicine Mann–Whitney U test General Health Questionnaire business education hirsutism |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 11:198-203 |
| ISSN: | 1364-6893 0144-3615 |
| Popis: | SummaryPsychological assessment with the 60 question General Health Questionnaire and the Beck Depression Inventory in 47 hirsute women before anti-androgen treatment showed an incidence of psychological morbidity of 51 per cent (scores > 12). This is a very high figure for a population of young women (mean age 25.8 years) attending a non-psychiatric clinic. The incidence was 10 per cent in the 30 control women studied. The hirsute women were significantly more anxious (P< 0.001), more depressed (P=0.05), more tired (P |
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