DEPRESSION—A STUDY OF 80 CASES*

The present study refers to an analysis of eighty cases of depression. The annual incidence in our psychiatric population ranges from 17-20% of all the new psychiatric cases. The peak incidence was observed in the age group of 26—45 years, without any particular affinity to either sex. 83.8% of our...

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Autores principales: Ponnudurai, R., Somasundaram, O., Balakrishnan, S., Srinivasan, Nirmala
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1981
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22064611
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author Ponnudurai, R.
Somasundaram, O.
Balakrishnan, S.
Srinivasan, Nirmala
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description The present study refers to an analysis of eighty cases of depression. The annual incidence in our psychiatric population ranges from 17-20% of all the new psychiatric cases. The peak incidence was observed in the age group of 26—45 years, without any particular affinity to either sex. 83.8% of our sample were married and those hailing from nuclear families formed the larger proportion (58.75%). Somatic symptoms were the predominant presenting complaint in 61.3% of our patients. Another noteworthy observation was significant number of depressives harboured guilt feelings (76.3%) and suicidal ideas (73.8%). Other findings are also discussed.
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spelling pubmed-30129552011-11-06 DEPRESSION—A STUDY OF 80 CASES* Ponnudurai, R. Somasundaram, O. Balakrishnan, S. Srinivasan, Nirmala Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The present study refers to an analysis of eighty cases of depression. The annual incidence in our psychiatric population ranges from 17-20% of all the new psychiatric cases. The peak incidence was observed in the age group of 26—45 years, without any particular affinity to either sex. 83.8% of our sample were married and those hailing from nuclear families formed the larger proportion (58.75%). Somatic symptoms were the predominant presenting complaint in 61.3% of our patients. Another noteworthy observation was significant number of depressives harboured guilt feelings (76.3%) and suicidal ideas (73.8%). Other findings are also discussed. Medknow Publications 1981 /pmc/articles/PMC3012955/ /pubmed/22064611 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ponnudurai, R.
Somasundaram, O.
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DEPRESSION—A STUDY OF 80 CASES*
title DEPRESSION—A STUDY OF 80 CASES*
title_full DEPRESSION—A STUDY OF 80 CASES*
title_fullStr DEPRESSION—A STUDY OF 80 CASES*
title_full_unstemmed DEPRESSION—A STUDY OF 80 CASES*
title_short DEPRESSION—A STUDY OF 80 CASES*
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22064611
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