The prevalence of emotional and cognitive dysfunction in a general medical population: Using the MMSE, GHQ, and BDI

Cavanaugh, Stephanie VonAmmon

doi:10.1016/0163-8343(83)90038-5

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“…Studies by Schwab et al (1967), Moffic and Paykel (1975), Cavanaugh (1983), and Rodin and Voshart (1987) are examples of the many studies which have been reported in the literature and can usefully be examined to highlight some of the findings to date and the methodological problems.…”

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“…All of these studies failed to differentiate depressive symptoms from clinically diagnosed depressive illness. All included heterogeneous patient samples and two (Cavanaugh 1983;Rodin and Voshart, 1987) did not standardise the time of assessment which, as demonstrated by Moffic and Paykel's (1975) findings may influence the prevalence of depressive symptoms.…”

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Depression, disease and disability: application to patients with traumatic spinal cord injury

1991

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SummaryDepressive symptoms are common in medically ill patients. Methodological difficulties of many of the studies demonstrating this do not allOVJ differentiation of depressive symptoms from depressive illness. This paper examines representative samples of studies in the medically ill to highlight these problems. Data from a study of patients with traumatic spinal cord injury are used to demonstrate (1) ways of overcoming some of these difficulties and (2) the means of differentiating depressive symptoms and depressive illness. Difficulties of detection and diagnosis of depression in the medically ill are discussed.

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Section: Depressive Symptoms Disease and Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Depressive Symptoms Disease and Disabilitymentioning

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Depression, disease and disability: application to patients with traumatic spinal cord injury

1991

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“…A survey of 100 hospitalized TB patients in South Africa indicated that 68% had some degree of clinical depression: 22 patients were mildly depressed, 38 patients were moderately depressed, and 8 patients were severely depressed. 4 Other studies 5,6 have indicated that between 24% and 36% of medically ill people meet the criteria for depression. These findings seem to indicate that the link between depression and TB is stronger than that between depression and other medical illnesses.…”

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Treatment of Comorbid Tuberculosis and Depression

Trenton

Currier²

2001

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“…Physicians and surgeons are increasingly becoming aware that one third to two thirds of their patients have significant psychiatric symptomatology which is amenable to treatment by psychiatrists. 39,40 The fact, that psychiatric patients can also present to the medical or surgical units due to antecedent physical illnesses and may need additional care by psychiatrists is being recognised. 41 A large scale study done by Gilli M et al showed that 56.8% of patients with chronic somatic disease had some kind of mental disorder particularly those suffering from neurological, oncological or liver disease.…”

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Pattern of Psychiatric Morbidity Among Referred Patients to the Department of Psychiatry in Super Speciality Hospital of Kashmir

Gania¹,

Suhaff²,

Hakak³

et al. 2016

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BACKGROUNDThe paper discusses the role of referrals in psychiatric practice using referrals from various departments in super-speciality teaching hospital. It is a care delivered by psychiatrists to patients with co-occurring medical and psychiatric problems who are being treated primarily in medical settings. The department of psychiatry in a super-speciality hospital setting, has a multidimensional role providing inpatient care, maintaining strong interaction with community psychiatric services and offering specialist services to the general hospital wards either as part of the multidisciplinary approach to patient management or by offering specialist inpatient care to patients already hospitalised in other departments, or attending patients referred from other departments with psychiatric problems. 1-3 The most referrals were from department of medicine with most common reasons being depression, anxiety and somatic symptoms. MATERIALS AND METHODSThis cross-sectional study was conducted at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS). All patients being referred to psychiatry were included in the study over 3-month period. The information was recorded on a structured questionnaire and analysed the data using SPSS. A total of 350 patients were referred to psychiatry from various departments. RESULTSAverage age of the patients referred to was 32.6 years. 151 (48.2%) referrals were males. 71 (22.7%) referrals were from Cardiology, 46 (14.7%) from Neurology, 39 (12.5%) from General Medicine, 36 (11.5%) from Gastroenterology, 28(8%) from Physical Medicine, 24 (7.7%) from Accident & Emergency, 22 (7%) from Endocrinology, and 47 (15%) were from various other departments. Among the various reasons of referrals, 40 (12.8%) were for depressive disorder, 29 (9.3%) for functional neurological symptom disorder, 28 (8.9%) for generalised anxiety disorder, 27 (8.6%) for panic disorder and somatic symptom disorder each. 162 (51.8%) referrals for other reasons. CONCLUSIONWe concluded that awareness of using referral services is most important. We also conclude that it was necessary for a physician to have a comprehensive knowledge of psychiatric symptoms and timely intervention should be adopted in referral system.

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The prevalence of emotional and cognitive dysfunction in a general medical population: Using the MMSE, GHQ, and BDI

Cited by 192 publications

References 24 publications

Depression, disease and disability: application to patients with traumatic spinal cord injury

Depression, disease and disability: application to patients with traumatic spinal cord injury

Treatment of Comorbid Tuberculosis and Depression

Pattern of Psychiatric Morbidity Among Referred Patients to the Department of Psychiatry in Super Speciality Hospital of Kashmir

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