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Depressive thoughts in general practice attenders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Paul Williams and
David Skuse
Paul Williams
Affiliation:
From the General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry and the Department of Psychological Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London
David Skuse
Affiliation:
From the General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry and the Department of Psychological Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London
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Synopsis

Depressive thoughts were commonly reported by a sample of patients attending a south London general practitioner. Their occurrence corresponded more closely with a psychiatrist's than the general practitioner's diagnosis of depression; a ‘scale’ composed of questions about depressive thinking discriminated well between depressed and non-depressed men, but was a much poorer discriminator in the women.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , May 1988, pp. 469 - 475
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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