Psychosocial processes of remission in unipolar depression: comparing depressed patients with matched community controls.
Psychosocial processes of remission in unipolar depression: comparing depressed patients with matched community controls.
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单相抑郁症缓解的心理社会过程:将抑郁症患者与匹配的社区对照进行比较。
DOI:
10.1037//0022-006x.53.3.314
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
5.9
通讯作者:
Moos,RH
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作者:
Billings,AG;Moos,RH
Investigated the posttreatment phase of unipolar depression by examining the personal and social-environmental characteristics of remitted, partially remitted, and nonremitted depressed patients. The sample was based on a 12-mo follow-up of 424 depressed persons who received psychiatric treatment and a comparable follow-up of demographically matched, nondepressed community controls. 98.8% of the Ss were located at 12-mo follow-up. Analyses were based on 380 Ss. At follow-up, the 138 Ss whose depressive symptoms remitted also reported improvement in other aspects of their adjustment as well as in personal resources such as self-esteem and coping responses to posttreatment stressors. In contrast, the 133 nonremitted Ss continued to report deficits in each of these domains. 124 Ss were categorized as partially remitted. Remitted Ss approached normal levels of life stressors and social resources, whereas nonremitted Ss continued to report heightened stressors and lower levels of support. Risk factors identified at treatment intake were predictive of these Ss' subsequent outcome at follow-up. These findings imply that many successfully treated depressed patients can resume near-normal patterns of functioning and that remission is linked to normalization of personal and social context factors.(34 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)