An investigation of the effects of comorbid Axis II pathology on outcome of inpatient treatment for unipolar depression
| Autor: | Linda W. Craighead, Michael Greenberg, W. Edward Craighead, Donald D. Evans |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) Disease cluster medicine.disease Comorbidity Outcome (probability) Clinical Psychology Rating scale mental disorders medicine Personality Psychology Psychiatry Categorical variable Depression (differential diagnoses) media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 17:305-321 |
| ISSN: | 1573-3505 0882-2689 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf02229053 |
| Popis: | DSM-based research on comorbidity has suggested thatdepression andpersonality disorder frequently occur together and that the combination of syndromes is associated with a poor response to treatment for depression. The present study was designed to explore the effect of comorbid Axis II pathology for a sample of 45 inpatients who received treatment for major depression. Both categorical and dimensional ratings of personality disorder were used in the statistical analysis. Positive categorical diagnosis of Cluster C (anxious-avoidant) disorder, as well as higher dimensional rating of Cluster A (odd-eccentric) pathology, was predictive of a poor response to treatment (p |
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