TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Depressive symptoms in schizophrenic outpatients
JO  - Annals of clinical psychiatry
A1  - Moranville, J.T.
A1  - Zisook, S.
SP  - 205
EP  - 210
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1040-1237
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10401239009147945
ID  - ref1
ER  -