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Assessing depressive symptoms in five psychiatric populations: a validation study.
TLDR
Results show that the CES-D scale is a sensitive tool for detecting depressive symptoms and change in symptoms over time in psychiatric populations, and that it agrees quite well with more lengthy self-report scales used in clinical studies and with clinician interview ratings.
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Parent and child reports of depressive symptoms in children at low and high risk of depression.
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Overall, the children reported more depressive symptoms than their parents reported about them and the overall pattern suggests that parents are relatively insensitive to their children's depressive symptomatology, but their reports show high specificity.
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Differential symptom reduction by drugs and psychotherapy in acute depression.
A randomized, controlled trial compared the combination of amitriptyline hydrochloride and short-term interpersonal psychotherapy, either treatment alone, and a nonscheduled treatment control group…
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Onset of major depression in early adulthood. Increased familial loading and specificity.
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More studies will be needed to sort out secular changes in the rates of the occurrence of major depression among young persons (cohort effect) from the high familial loading ofmajor depression that has its onset in childhood and adolescence, and to determine whether the specificity of transmission of early-onset depression is the result of a single homogeneous disorder.
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Lifetime prevalence and age of onset of psychiatric disorders: recall 4 years later.
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Children of depressed parents. Increased psychopathology and early onset of major depression.
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There was an increased overall prevalence of major depression and substance abuse, psychiatric treatment, poor social functioning, and school problems in the children of depressed proband parents compared with children of normal proband parent group.
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Psychiatric disorders in the relatives of depressed probands. I. Comparison of prepubertal, adolescent and early adult onset cases.
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Psychiatric disorders in the relatives of probands with affective disorders. The Yale University--National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Study.
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There was a similarity in rates of affective disorders in the relatives of ambulatory and of hospitalized depressed probands (suggesting that ambulatory depressed patients may be as suitable as hospitalized ones for biological studies) and a comparability of rates of illness in relatives between centers for most disorders when comparable diagnostic criteria and procedures were used.
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The efficacy of drugs and psychotherapy in the treatment of acute depressive episodes.
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It was found that pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy alone were equally efficacious and better than nonscheduled treatment and the combination treatment of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy was more effective than either treatment alone and delayed the onset of symptomatic failure.
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Understanding the clinical heterogeneity of major depression using family data.
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It was found that only early age at onset, or major depression with an anxiety disorder or secondary alcoholism, were independently related to increased risk of major depression in relatives.
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