@article{ref1,
title="Depressive symptoms in schizophrenic outpatients",
journal="Annals of clinical psychiatry",
year="1990",
author="Moranville, J.T. and Zisook, S.",
volume="2",
number="3",
pages="205-210",
abstract="Patients with schizophrenia suffer from a variety of depressive symptoms, but the prevalence and significance of these symptoms is not fully understood. Using a self-rated symptom checklist, 140 schizophrenic outpatients and 137 outpatients with affective disorder were compared on the frequency and severity of depressive symptomatology. As expected, patients with major depressive disorder had a significantly higher prevalence of depressive symptoms than the schizophrenic patients. However, there was a substantial number of schizophrenic patients who indicated severe distress from a variety of depressive symptoms including neurovegetative type symptoms. Though no actual suicides were reported a rather ominous finding was that 14% of the schizophrenic patients reported having suicidal plans. This article discusses the implications of these findings in terms of diagnostic precision and therapeutic strategies.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1040-1237",
doi="10.3109/10401239009147945",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10401239009147945"
}