“…Recent research highlights the importance of clarifying the predictive relation between depressive symptoms and functional incapacity. 2 , 5 Thus, the strategy of screening common symptoms, which are often ignored as changes in mood, sleep, and appetite, and persist for more than two or three weeks, becomes relevant. These symptoms, despite characterizing the Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), do not make a definitive diagnosis but serve as providential indicators, so as to avoid worse prognoses of the disease.…”