Depression, anxiety, and social disability show synchrony of change in primary care patients.
Author(s) -
Johan Ormel,
Michael Von Korff,
W Van den Brink,
Wayne Katon,
Els I. Brilman,
Tineke Oldehinkel
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.83.3.385
Subject(s) - primary care , depression (economics) , anxiety , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , gerontology , clinical psychology , family medicine , economics , macroeconomics
The purposes of this study were to (1) characterize the social disability associated with the common psychiatric illnesses of primary care patients in terms of role dysfunction (self-care, family role, social role, occupational role) and (2) establish whether severity of psychiatric illness and disability level show synchrony of change.
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