Citation

Seo HJ, Jung YE, Kim TS, Kim JB, Lee MS, Kim JM, Lim HW, Jun TY. J. Nerv. Ment. Dis. 2011; 199(1): 42-48.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Clinical Research Center for Depression, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Department of Psychiatry, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea; Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Department of Psychiatry, Chonnam National University Medical School, Kwangju, Republic of Korea; and Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182043b60

PMID

21206246

Abstract

This study evaluated clinical characteristics and suicidality of patients with anxious depression in a large cohort of samples. Data were collected from 1003 patients who were depressed. A total of 461 patients were diagnosed with anxious depression and 542 were diagnosed with nonanxious depression. After adjusting for the severity of depression, those in the anxious depression group had significantly younger onset age, had been suffering from depression for a longer period, were more likely to experience a recurrence, and obtained lower scores on a scale assessing quality of life. The anxious depression group was characterized by a significantly higher proportion of individuals reporting significant suicidal ideation and previous suicide attempts, and those in this group tended to obtain higher scores on the Scale for Suicide Ideation. The present findings that were drawn from detailed evaluation of suicidality strongly support previous results assessed only with the help of clinical reports. More attention should be paid to assess suicide risk in these patients.

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