Clinical features of dysthymia and age: a clinical investigation

@article{Bellino2001ClinicalFO,
  title={Clinical features of dysthymia and age: a clinical investigation},
  author={Silvio Bellino and Luca Patria and Simona Ziero and Giuseppe Rocca and Filippo Bogetto},
  journal={Psychiatry Research},
  year={2001},
  volume={103},
  pages={219-228}
}
A few authors have described the clinical picture of dysthymia in groups of elderly patients and pointed out differences from literature reports of dysthymia in younger adults. The present study, an attempt to analyze age effects on clinical characteristics of dysthymia throughout a lifetime, was performed in a sample of 106 patients, all aged > or =18 years, who were diagnosed according to DSM-IV. The patients were evaluated using: (1) a semistructured interview to assess clinical features… Expand
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