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Subclinical depression in primary care and somatic symptoms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Sergio Ruiz-Doblado ,
Belen Estepa-Zabala  and
Blanca Fernández-Abascal
Sergio Ruiz-Doblado*
Affiliation:
Unidad de Psiquiatría, Hospital de la Merced, Avda Constitución 2, 41640 Osuna (Seville), Spain
Belen Estepa-Zabala
Affiliation:
Unidad de Psiquiatría, Hospital de la Merced, Avda Constitución 2, 41640 Osuna (Seville), Spain
Blanca Fernández-Abascal
Affiliation:
Unidad de Psiquiatría, Hospital de la Merced, Avda Constitución 2, 41640 Osuna (Seville), Spain
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected]

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Sir: Studies concerning depression in primary care emphasize the fact that several clinical features of these mood disorders do not satisfy the diagnostic criteria of psychiatric classifications [4]. These primary care patients have been classified as subclinical depression, subthreshold depression, or patients with “depressive symptoms only” [2]. We compared using analysis of variance and Mann–Whitney statistics, a randomized group of 43 patients presenting clinical depressive symptoms (Beck Depression Inventory >16, cut-score validated in Spanish version [1,3]), with another group of 41 “subclinical” patients (BDI scores: 10–16). We considered statistically significative difference P < 0.01.

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Letter to the Editor
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 120 - 121
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Copyright © 2004 European Psychiatric Association

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