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An analysis of the nature of depressive phenomena in primary health care utilising multivariate statistical techniques
Author(s) -
Sen B.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1987.tb02858.x
Subject(s) - multivariate analysis , multivariate statistics , depression (economics) , primary care , discriminant function analysis , primary health care , rating scale , medicine , linear discriminant analysis , discriminant validity , psychology , psychiatry , clinical psychology , psychometrics , family medicine , environmental health , statistics , developmental psychology , population , mathematics , internal consistency , economics , macroeconomics
— The nature of depressive phenomena in primary health care was explored with data obtained from three primary health care clinics situated in the periphery of the city of Calcutta in India. The Self‐Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ) and the Screening for Depression Questionnaire (SDQ‐9) were used as the first stage and the Clinical Interview Schedule (CIS) and the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (Hamilton) as the second stage instruments respectively. Health workers with limited training administered the first stage instruments to consecutive adult clinic attenders. Principal components analysis followed by multiple linear regression analysis and discriminant function analysis were applied to the data. It was concluded that depressive phenomena in primary health care settings were largely undifferentiated in nature.