Sociocultural Aspects of Depression in Medical Inpatients

Social class, psychological disorder, and the nature of the psychopathologic indicator.

“…Their findings were verified and extended by Myers and Roberts (1959), who studied the status relatedness of psychological symptoms in depth. These observations have received confirmation from other large epidemiological studies (Leighton, Harding, Macklin, MacMillan, & Leighton, 1963;Srole, Langner, Michael, Opler, & Rennie, 1962) and have been extended to patient populations in studies of psychosomatic conditions (Schwab, McGinnis, & Norris, 1970) and investigations of primary medical disorders (Schwab et al, 1967;Srole et al, 1962).…”

“…The present design did not enable us to shed much light on the underlying mechanisms that control and mediate these aspects of psychopathologic behavior. It is plausible to assume, however, that a convergence of sociocultural influences are responsible for the lower-status patient reporting and/or experiencing more psychological symptoms than the upper-status individual (Schwab et al, 1967). Some of the factors that affect these phenomena were discussed more fully in a previous report .…”

Social class, psychological disorder, and the nature of the psychopathologic indicator.

“…Their findings were verified and extended by Myers and Roberts (1959), who studied the status relatedness of psychological symptoms in depth. These observations have received confirmation from other large epidemiological studies (Leighton, Harding, Macklin, MacMillan, & Leighton, 1963;Srole, Langner, Michael, Opler, & Rennie, 1962) and have been extended to patient populations in studies of psychosomatic conditions (Schwab, McGinnis, & Norris, 1970) and investigations of primary medical disorders (Schwab et al, 1967;Srole et al, 1962).…”

“…The present design did not enable us to shed much light on the underlying mechanisms that control and mediate these aspects of psychopathologic behavior. It is plausible to assume, however, that a convergence of sociocultural influences are responsible for the lower-status patient reporting and/or experiencing more psychological symptoms than the upper-status individual (Schwab et al, 1967). Some of the factors that affect these phenomena were discussed more fully in a previous report .…”

Symptoms of depression in two communities

“…Although a number of studies have found a greater frequency of affective psychoses among the well-to-do (Silverman, 1968), this is not universally true (Pederson et al 1972). Furthermore, evidence has been obtained suggesting that such a finding may result from a tendency of physicians to recognize depression more readily in patients from their own social class (Schwab et al 1967). The major populationbased studies that have looked at depression and socio-economic status have been unanimous in finding that symptoms related to depression are least common among the upper socioeconomic groups, regardless of whether the grouping is made on the basis of education, income or occupation (Srole et al 1962;Gurin et al 1960;National Center for Health Statistics, 1970;Berkman, 1971;Warheit et al 1973).…”

The prevalence of psychiatric disorder among female new referrals to a migraine clinic

“…Although it is generally accepted that depression and anxiety are the most common psychiatric disorders occurring in general hospital out-patient populations, the literature available does not provide enough data on the composition of the samples or on the diagnostic criteria for psychiatric illness to allow comparison with this sample (Schwab et al 1967 a, b;Nabarro, 1984;Kathol & Petty, 1981;Lloyd, 1983;Mayou & Hawton, 1986). Without a control population from a general medical outpatient clinic it is difficult to be certain, on the basis of this study alone, that the prevalence of mood change and affective syndromes is greater than expected in migraine.…”

Social class, psychological disorder, and the nature of the psychopathologic indicator.

“…Their findings were verified and extended by Myers and Roberts (1959), who studied the status relatedness of psychological symptoms in depth. These observations have received confirmation from other large epidemiological studies (Leighton, Harding, Macklin, MacMillan, & Leighton, 1963;Srole, Langner, Michael, Opler, & Rennie, 1962) and have been extended to patient populations in studies of psychosomatic conditions (Schwab, McGinnis, & Norris, 1970) and investigations of primary medical disorders (Schwab et al, 1967;Srole et al, 1962).…”

“…The present design did not enable us to shed much light on the underlying mechanisms that control and mediate these aspects of psychopathologic behavior. It is plausible to assume, however, that a convergence of sociocultural influences are responsible for the lower-status patient reporting and/or experiencing more psychological symptoms than the upper-status individual (Schwab et al, 1967). Some of the factors that affect these phenomena were discussed more fully in a previous report .…”

Symptoms of depression in two communities

“…Although a number of studies have found a greater frequency of affective psychoses among the well-to-do (Silverman, 1968), this is not universally true (Pederson et al 1972). Furthermore, evidence has been obtained suggesting that such a finding may result from a tendency of physicians to recognize depression more readily in patients from their own social class (Schwab et al 1967). The major populationbased studies that have looked at depression and socio-economic status have been unanimous in finding that symptoms related to depression are least common among the upper socioeconomic groups, regardless of whether the grouping is made on the basis of education, income or occupation (Srole et al 1962;Gurin et al 1960;National Center for Health Statistics, 1970;Berkman, 1971;Warheit et al 1973).…”

The prevalence of psychiatric disorder among female new referrals to a migraine clinic

“…Although it is generally accepted that depression and anxiety are the most common psychiatric disorders occurring in general hospital out-patient populations, the literature available does not provide enough data on the composition of the samples or on the diagnostic criteria for psychiatric illness to allow comparison with this sample (Schwab et al 1967 a, b;Nabarro, 1984;Kathol & Petty, 1981;Lloyd, 1983;Mayou & Hawton, 1986). Without a control population from a general medical outpatient clinic it is difficult to be certain, on the basis of this study alone, that the prevalence of mood change and affective syndromes is greater than expected in migraine.…”

Social class, psychological disorder, and the nature of the psychopathologic indicator.

“…Their findings were verified and extended by Myers and Roberts (1959), who studied the status relatedness of psychological symptoms in depth. These observations have received confirmation from other large epidemiological studies (Leighton, Harding, Macklin, MacMillan, & Leighton, 1963;Srole, Langner, Michael, Opler, & Rennie, 1962) and have been extended to patient populations in studies of psychosomatic conditions (Schwab, McGinnis, & Norris, 1970) and investigations of primary medical disorders (Schwab et al, 1967;Srole et al, 1962).…”

“…The present design did not enable us to shed much light on the underlying mechanisms that control and mediate these aspects of psychopathologic behavior. It is plausible to assume, however, that a convergence of sociocultural influences are responsible for the lower-status patient reporting and/or experiencing more psychological symptoms than the upper-status individual (Schwab et al, 1967). Some of the factors that affect these phenomena were discussed more fully in a previous report .…”

Symptoms of depression in two communities

“…Although a number of studies have found a greater frequency of affective psychoses among the well-to-do (Silverman, 1968), this is not universally true (Pederson et al 1972). Furthermore, evidence has been obtained suggesting that such a finding may result from a tendency of physicians to recognize depression more readily in patients from their own social class (Schwab et al 1967). The major populationbased studies that have looked at depression and socio-economic status have been unanimous in finding that symptoms related to depression are least common among the upper socioeconomic groups, regardless of whether the grouping is made on the basis of education, income or occupation (Srole et al 1962;Gurin et al 1960;National Center for Health Statistics, 1970;Berkman, 1971;Warheit et al 1973).…”

The prevalence of psychiatric disorder among female new referrals to a migraine clinic

“…Although it is generally accepted that depression and anxiety are the most common psychiatric disorders occurring in general hospital out-patient populations, the literature available does not provide enough data on the composition of the samples or on the diagnostic criteria for psychiatric illness to allow comparison with this sample (Schwab et al 1967 a, b;Nabarro, 1984;Kathol & Petty, 1981;Lloyd, 1983;Mayou & Hawton, 1986). Without a control population from a general medical outpatient clinic it is difficult to be certain, on the basis of this study alone, that the prevalence of mood change and affective syndromes is greater than expected in migraine.…”