Gender Differences among Patients with a Single Depressive Episode
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Gender Differences among Patients with a Single Depressive Episode. / Bukh, Jens D; Bock, Camilla; Vinberg, Maj; Gether, Ulrik; Kessing, Lars Vedel; Bukh, Jens Otto Drachmann; Bock, Camilla; Vinberg, Maj; Gether, Ulrik; Kessing, Lars Vedel.
I: Psychopathology, Bind 43, Nr. 3, 2010, s. 159-169.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Gender Differences among Patients with a Single Depressive Episode
AU - Bukh, Jens D
AU - Bock, Camilla
AU - Vinberg, Maj
AU - Gether, Ulrik
AU - Kessing, Lars Vedel
AU - Bukh, Jens Otto Drachmann
AU - Bock, Camilla
AU - Vinberg, Maj
AU - Gether, Ulrik
AU - Kessing, Lars Vedel
N1 - Keywords: Antidepressive Agents; Depressive Disorder; Electroconvulsive Therapy; Female; Humans; Incidence; Interviews as Topic; Life Change Events; Male; Personality; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Questionnaires; Registries; Severity of Illness Index; Sex Characteristics; Sex Factors; Statistics, Nonparametric; Treatment Outcome
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - BACKGROUND: Studies on gender differences in depression have usually included a mixture of patients with first-episode, chronic and recurrent depression. Consequently, the results might be confounded by the history of depression among participants. The present study evaluated gender differences in sociodemographic, clinical and treatment variables among patients suffering exclusively from single-episode depression. METHOD: Systematic recruitment of 301 participants via the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register and assessment by means of questionnaires and interviews regarding psychiatric diagnoses, personality traits and disorders, stressful life events, family history, and treatment response. RESULTS: Female patients showed a higher level of neuroticism and more residual anxiety symptoms after treatment of the depression. There were no gender differences in severity of depression, psychiatric co-morbidity (including personality disorders), stressful life events prior to onset, family loading of psychiatric disorders, or treatment outcome. CONCLUSION: The results provide evidence for a higher level of anxiety and neuroticism among females with a recent onset of depression, whereas other clinical characteristics of first-episode depression were equivalent between male and female patients. Only patients with contact to a psychiatric hospital were included; thus, the results cannot be generalized to patients in primary care.
AB - BACKGROUND: Studies on gender differences in depression have usually included a mixture of patients with first-episode, chronic and recurrent depression. Consequently, the results might be confounded by the history of depression among participants. The present study evaluated gender differences in sociodemographic, clinical and treatment variables among patients suffering exclusively from single-episode depression. METHOD: Systematic recruitment of 301 participants via the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register and assessment by means of questionnaires and interviews regarding psychiatric diagnoses, personality traits and disorders, stressful life events, family history, and treatment response. RESULTS: Female patients showed a higher level of neuroticism and more residual anxiety symptoms after treatment of the depression. There were no gender differences in severity of depression, psychiatric co-morbidity (including personality disorders), stressful life events prior to onset, family loading of psychiatric disorders, or treatment outcome. CONCLUSION: The results provide evidence for a higher level of anxiety and neuroticism among females with a recent onset of depression, whereas other clinical characteristics of first-episode depression were equivalent between male and female patients. Only patients with contact to a psychiatric hospital were included; thus, the results cannot be generalized to patients in primary care.
U2 - 10.1159/000288638
DO - 10.1159/000288638
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 20197709
VL - 43
SP - 159
EP - 169
JO - Psychopathology
JF - Psychopathology
SN - 0254-4962
IS - 3
ER -
ID: 21701908