The depression subscale determines the level of
depressive symptoms a person is experiencing based on a 0 to 21 score, with a score of 0 to 7 being normal, 8 to 10 being mild, and 11 or greater being moderate to severe.
Not exact matches
People with these illnesses live with
depressive or manic
symptoms for about 50 per cent of the time, experience a decreased quality of life and have an expected life span of 10 - 15 years shorter than that of the general population.
People who experienced more of the emotions that they desired reported greater life satisfaction and fewer
depressive symptoms, regardless of whether those desired emotions were pleasant or unpleasant.
The researchers discovered that about 40 percent of
people with high levels of
depressive symptoms «recovered» and the same amount of
people developed new depression
symptoms at each follow - up visit.
Lijun Song, assistant professor of sociology, set out to discover whether knowing high - status
people helped or harmed mental health, using
depressive symptoms as a proxy.
THE RESULTS Just as one would hope, taking an antidepressant typically improved a
person's
depressive symptoms, the trials showed.
The researchers asked 75
people with OCD to complete questionnaires assessing inferential confusion, schizotypal personality, dissociative experiences, strength of obsessive beliefs, and
depressive and anxiety
symptoms.
Black adolescents express
depressive symptoms differently than
people from other age and racial groups, requiring that clinicians take this into account when developing treatment plans, according to a new study led by a Rutgers University - Camden researcher.
A study of
people from an isolated village in the Netherlands reveals a link between rare variants in the gene NKPD1 and
depressive symptoms.
Nearly 2,000
people who had been assessed for
depressive symptoms were included in the analysis.
Meanwhile, Maura Furey of the National Institute of Mental Health and her colleagues are following up on the discovery that intravenous delivery of scopolamine, a motion - sickness drug, relieves
depressive symptoms in
people within days.
A second study, of patients with type 1 diabetes, emphasizes the potential importance of treating
depressive symptoms regardless of their cause: It found that the greater
depressive symptoms a patient reported, the higher that
person's mortality risk.
A second, unrelated study that analyzed data from a cohort of
people with type 1 diabetes in the Pittsburgh area, the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications study (EDC), showed why it is so important to recognize
depressive symptoms in
people living with diabetes: Those who exhibit the highest level of
depressive symptoms are most likely to die prematurely.
«What's important about this,» said Fisher, «is that many of the
depressive symptoms reported by
people with type 2 diabetes are really related to their diabetes, and don't have to be considered psychopathology.
«This study supports the use of a yoga and coherent breathing intervention in major
depressive disorder in
people who are not on antidepressants and in those who have been on a stable dose of antidepressants and have not achieved a resolution of their
symptoms,» explained corresponding author Chris Streeter, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and a psychiatrist at Boston Medical Center.
«CPAP therapy reduces
symptoms of depression in adults with sleep apnea:
People with
depressive symptoms should be screened for obstructive sleep apnea.»
The first of its kind research, published today in World Psychiatry found that overall smartphone apps significantly reduced
people's
depressive symptoms, suggesting these new digital therapies can be useful for managing the condition.
Pain interference and
depressive symptoms in communicative
people with Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study.
Clinicians should regularly assess pain interference and
depressive symptoms in
people with AD to identify pain that might be otherwise overlooked, the researchers concluded.
According to a 2014 study published in the journal Stroke,
people who scored higher on measures of unfriendliness, as well as those with chronic stress and
depressive symptoms, had a higher risk of stroke than the friendlier, kinder participants.
While some
people with fibromyalgia may also have depression, studies show that fibrofog exists independently of
depressive symptoms.
People with
depressive conditions don't all feel the exact same
symptoms.
Because antidepressants have helped many
people live happier lives and statistics show they are effective in reducing
depressive symptoms in between 50 per cent and 80 per cent of
people.
On the other hand, sitting upright with good posture (spine in line, shoulders back) helped
people with
depressive symptoms feel more enthusiastic and less fatigued, found a recent study published in Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
But regardless of the types of emotions
people desired to feel — and regardless of country or culture — those participants whose desired emotions best matched their actual emotions reported greater life satisfaction and fewer
depressive symptoms.
Personal safety should be the first consideration in the assessment of all depression, as suicide or self harm can be a risk for
people experiencing more severe
depressive symptoms.
[9] IBS, for instance, can cause
depressive - like
symptoms in
people, [10] as can gluten intolerance.
Furthermore, when inflammation is created in healthy
people, they develop
depressive symptoms (7).
But while others can offer you treatments and tools to work through
depressive symptoms, each
person struggling with it must understand, trust, and invest in their own process of healing.
Positive Psychology co-founder Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania, and his colleagues also discovered that when
people took a few minutes each evening to write down «three good things» that happened to them during the day, their happiness increased and their
depressive symptoms decreased.
Major depression is common in
people over the age of 50, particularly in those at socioeconomic disadvantage, or with poor physical health and previous
depressive symptoms
A mindfulness program for 522 young
people aged 12 — 16 in 12 secondary schools found that rates of acceptability were high and the children who participated in the intervention reported fewer
depressive symptoms and lower stress and had greater well - being at 3 - month follow - up (Kuyken et al 2013).
In both bipolar I and II disorders, a
person can have a mood episode (i.e., primarily manic or depressed) with mixed features, wherein a manic / hypomanic episode there are significant
depressive symptoms, and in a
depressive episode there are some manic / hypomanic
symptoms.
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People who never married have 12 percent more mobility limitations and 13 percent more depressive symptoms, but report no difference in the number of chronic health conditions from married p
People who never married have 12 percent more mobility limitations and 13 percent more
depressive symptoms, but report no difference in the number of chronic health conditions from married
peoplepeople.
The project developed and subsequently piloted the effectiveness of an integrated co-morbidity intervention against an amphetamine - only intervention and no intervention, among a group of
people with co-morbid methamphetamine dependence and
depressive symptoms.
Mindfulness is even effective for
people dealing with the most critical of
depressive symptoms: suicidal ideation, or thoughts of suicide.
Persons under age 16 with
depressive symptoms should speak to their parents about seeking professional help for their depression.
Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760
people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in
depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.
Sharpe et al add further support to the finding that CBT can reduce
depressive symptoms in
people with chronic illness, despite it often worsening in those patients without intervention.
Between 31 % and 45 % of
people with coronary heart disease suffer from clinically significant
depressive symptoms, and 15 % — 20 % of them meet criteria of major
depressive disorder which is roughly threefold higher than in the general population.13 It is now well established that depression is related to the incidence of CVD and is also an independent risk factor for cardiac morbidity and mortality.
The Intervention to prevent
Depressive symptoms and promote well - being in EArly - stage dementia (IDEA) programme supports
people with dementia and their family carers in identifying and scheduling enjoyable and meaningful activities.
A Cochrane Review25 of the effects of psychological treatments for
people with dementia found that these treatments may contribute to a reduction in
depressive symptoms, however evidence comes mostly from small - scale studies, with heterogeneous treatments.25 A recent systematic review of behavioural activation (BA) interventions for older
people found that these are associated with a reduction in
depressive symptoms in older
people without dementia living in the community.26 The review also highlighted that most studies so far including
people with dementia do not use well - defined interventions.
More specifically, recruitment via the depression self - test might encourage
people with
depressive symptoms to participate in particular.
This protocol describes a study testing the acceptability and feasibility of a manual - based behavioural activation (BA) intervention for preventing and treating
depressive symptoms in
people with mild dementia.
Also called major depression,
depressive disorder is characterized by a combination of
symptoms that interfere with a
person's ability to work, sleep, study, eat, and enjoy once pleasurable activities.
As expected, when compared with participants living with others, those living alone were more likely to report (any)
depressive symptoms when living in neighbourhoods with poorer access to civic / institutional destinations, retail, food / eating outlets, public transport stops and health clinics / services, lower levels of crowdedness and fewer
people on the streets (table 4).
According to the WHO, it is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide.1 More than 300 million
people are estimated to be suffering from depression, corresponding to 4.4 % of the global population.1 Depression is more common among older adults, with a prevalence of 7 % and believed to be underestimated.2 As the world population ages, there will be a corresponding increase in the number of older adults with
depressive symptoms and associated global health burden.3
In elderly
people living in residential or nursing homes, a behavioural intervention by an outreach team improved
depressive and organic
symptoms but not behavioural problems or physical disability.
However, studies were excluded if they focused on young
people with chronic illnesses that have been referred to psychological services due to
depressive symptoms, or if sufficient information for computing effect sizes was not reported.
Objective
Depressive symptoms are common among
people with dementia, impacting quality of life and cognitive and functional decline.