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Functional Impairment in Psychiatric Outpatients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Michael Humphrey
Michael Humphrey*
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Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester
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This paper reports a series of experiments with a short self-rating scale derived from Zung (1965). Conceivedas a measure of depression, its value in a psychiatric setting has been confirmed. It also shows promise of identifying neurotic disability in a wider context, whether as an epidemiological tool or as a rapid screening device in general medicine.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 503 , October 1967 , pp. 1141 - 1151
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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