2000
DOI: 10.1159/000029165
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Abstract: The aims of the study were to examine: the frequency of the subtypes and symptoms of depression, the stability of symptoms in 3 months and to compare the data with previous studies. Ninety-six consecutive patients (31 males, 65 females) fulfilling ICD-10 criteria were assessed. Compared with the WHO study, the core symptoms of depression were similar; pathological guilt and suicidal behaviour were less prevalent, and psychoticism was more prevalent. Overall, 61.5% had severe depression, 64.6% had somatic syndr… Show more

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“…This is in agreement with findings from prior studies in the region 18 and other parts of Nigeria 14 . Depression is known to be associated with unemployment; however the nature of this association is contentious.…”
Section: -17supporting
confidence: 94%
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“…This is in agreement with findings from prior studies in the region 18 and other parts of Nigeria 14 . Depression is known to be associated with unemployment; however the nature of this association is contentious.…”
Section: -17supporting
confidence: 94%
“…Other common presenting features were anhedonia (94.1%), anorexia (86.8%) and insomnia (84.9%). These are similar to the presentation seen in patients studied decades ago (1998) 18 where common findings in patients with depression were depressed mood (98.5%), anhedonia (98.5%) and sleep disturbance (90.6%). There may thus appear to have been some constancy in the common symptoms of depression in the region.…”
supporting
confidence: 86%
“…Details of the clinical characteristics, including symptomatology, and relationship with sociodemographic variables, have been presented in detail elsewhere [35]. The commonest diagnostic categories were: recurrent severe psychotic depression, n = 30 (31.3%), and severe psychotic depressive episode, n = 21 (21.9%).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In a recent investigation, Otote and Ohaeri [18] found a (6.3%) rate of delusions of guilt in a Nigerian sample. The research of the last 30 years, supported by the use of standardised instruments, tended to confirm the results of the phenomenologically oriented or clinical investigations of the first half of the 20th century; while feelings of guilt appeared in the course of depressive disorders in nearly all cultures, they were definitely more frequent in the Western world, whereas hypochondriac ideas were the core ideation of depressives in non-Christian cultures [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 91%