LIFE SATISFACTION AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTIONING IN CHRONIC DEPRESSION - EFFECT OF ACUTE TREATMENT WITH ANTIDEPRESSANTS

被引:42
作者
AGOSTI, V [1 ]
STEWART, JW [1 ]
QUITKIN, FM [1 ]
机构
[1] COLUMBIA UNIV,DEPT PSYCHIAT,NEW YORK,NY 10027
关键词
CHRONIC DEPRESSION; SOCIAL FUNCTIONING; ANTIDEPRESSANTS;
D O I
10.1016/0165-0327(91)90033-O
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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摘要
Social functioning was evaluated in 61 chronically depressed adults with early onset. Patients were treated for 6 weeks in a double-blind trial of phenelzine, imipramine, L-deprenyl, or placebo and functioning was reassessed. The posttreatment social functioning of patients who received drug treatment was superior to the placebo group in the following areas: work functioning, house functioning, relationship with relatives, sex frequency and life satisfaction. These results suggest that psychosocial impairment in some chronic depressives may be a sequelae of depression, rather than a global manifestation of characterological pathology.
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