BACKGROUND Although depressive symptoms in older adults are common, their relationship with disability and the influence of disability on the development of depressive symptoms over time is not well understood. This longitudinal study investigates the change trajectories of both depressive symptoms and disability, as well as their associations over time. METHODS Participants included 442 comm...

BACKGROUND The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), despite its excellent reliability and validity in primary care, has not been examined for administration to psychiatric patients. This study assesses the accuracy of PHQ-9 in screening for major depressive episode and in diagnosing major depressive episode in patients of a psychiatric specialty clinic. METHODS We compared operational char...

The aim of the study was to investigate the association between depressive disorders and risk of tumor recurrence in patients with breast cancer after curative surgery.A nationwide cohort study between January 2001 and December 2007 was conducted. Data were taken from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. Among 30,659 newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, we identified 1147 ...

BACKGROUND In Australia, there is limited evidence on the impact of antenatal depression on perinatal outcomes. This study investigates the association between maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy and key perinatal outcomes, including birth weight, gestational age at birth, breastfeeding indicators and postnatal depressive symptoms. METHOD A retrospective cohort of mothers (N = 17,56...

BACKGROUND Depressive symptoms in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have attracted much attention in recent years, and negatively affect the health of diabetic patients in numerous ways. This study evaluated the prevalence rate of depressive symptoms in T2DM patients in Shanghai, and the potential factors that may be associated with depressive symptoms in this select population. M...

Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is associated both with cognitive decrements and depressive symptoms. Since depression in itself has been associated with cognitive decrements we aimed to investigate the influence of depressive symptoms on the relation between T2DM and cognitive functioning. Data were derived from three independent studies on cognitive functioning in patients with T2DM (n=366) and contro...

objective: the present study aims to investigate thought control strategies in generalized anxiety disorder (gad), major depressive disorder (mdd), and the relationship of these metacognitive strategies with trait anxiety, as a construct of emotional vulnerability. methods: 60 patients with diagnosis of gad and mdd and 30 control subjects (nonpatients) were selected from the university students...

background: it is estimated that major depression disorders constitute 8.2% of years lived with disability (ylds) globally. the repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) and electroconvulsive therapy (ect) are two relative common interventions to treat major depressive disorders, especially for treatment resistant depression. in this study the cost- effectiveness and cost-utility of r...

introduction: major depressive disorder is a common mental condition associated with substantial morbidity and economic burden. approved by the fda in september 2013 for treatment of episodes of major depressive disorder, vortioxetine is one of the newer options available in this important area of therapeutics. materials and methods: a comprehensive literature search (pubmed, the cochrane libra...