HOW SYMPTOMATIC DO DEPRESSED-PATIENTS REMAIN AFTER BENEFITING FROM MEDICATION TREATMENT

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AGOSTI, V [1 ]
STEWART, JW [1 ]
QUITKIN, FM [1 ]
OCEPEKWELIKSON, K [1 ]
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[1] NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIAT INST & HOSP,NEW YORK,NY 10032
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10.1016/0010-440X(93)90045-6
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R749 [精神病学];
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Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90) scores of 318 moderately depressed, nonmelancholic outpatients treated with phenelzine, imipramine, or placebo were compared with scores obtained from a demographically matched control group of 69 "normal" subjects. Pretreatment scores of depressed patients were significantly higher than those of the control group; after 6 weeks of treatment, they were indistinguishable from scores of the control group. These results suggest that symptoms of moderately depressed patients who benefit from treatment not only decrease from baseline, but are reduced to a level of symptomatology that is psychiatrically normal. © 1993.
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