Primary Unipolar Depression and the Prognostic Importance of Delusions
- 1 October 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 39 (10), 1181-1184
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290100051008
Abstract
• A consecutive series of inpatients with primary unipolar depression was categorized by the presence or absence of delusions as noted in the charts. The systematically obtained follow-up material contained in these charts showed that delusional patients had a relatively poor short-term outcome regardless of whether they received somatic treatment.Recovery rate increased with longer follow-up periods in both groups. In accord with this, a 40-year follow-up revealed no differences between delusional and nondelusional groups in terms of marital, residential, or occupational status, psychiatric symptoms, a final diagnosis of bipolar disorder, or death by suicide.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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