Open Access<p>The Relationship Between Baseline Clinical Symptom Characteristics and Working Ability in Japanese Patients Treated for Major Depressive Disorder and Painful Physical Symptoms</p>
Author(s) -
Norio Sugawara,
Norio YasuiFurukori,
Teruji Tsuji,
Shinji Hayashi,
Yoshikazu Ajisawa,
Toshimitsu Ochiai,
Hideyuki Imagawa,
Kazutaka Saito
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s274608
Subject(s) - medicine , major depressive disorder , post hoc analysis , depression (economics) , observational study , duloxetine , anxiety , hamilton rating scale for depression , rating scale , physical therapy , psychiatry , mood , psychology , alternative medicine , developmental psychology , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
The objective of this post hoc analysis was to explore the relationship, including changes over time, between baseline clinical symptom characteristics and working ability, judged by investigators, after 12 weeks of antidepressant monotherapy in Japanese patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and painful physical symptoms (PPS) in a real-world clinical setting.