Classification of depression by grade of membership: a confirmation study.
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Journal Article
One hundred and thirty out-patients with depression were studied by grade of membership multivariate (GOM) analysis. Five depressive types were generated. Pure Type I represented a mild form of melancholia in older, stable males, who showed a modest drug response. Pure Type II included obsessive-anxious symptoms in older patients who responded well to an MAOI drug, but poorly to placebo. Pure Type III was a mildly symptomatic form of depression which responded well to placebo. Pure Type IV included features of agitation, mood worsening later in the day, anorexia and depersonalization; it was commonly precipitated by external stress and MAOI treatment was more effective than placebo. In Pure Type V depression, patients were mostly younger females with high levels of symptomatology, atypical vegetative symptoms, unstable life-styles, disadvantaged backgrounds and a poor response to MAOI and placebo. These results resemble in many ways our earlier GOM study of depression, as well as other multivariate studies of depression in the literature.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Davidson, JR; Woodbury, MA; Zisook, S; Giller, EL
Published Date
- November 1989
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 19 / 4
Start / End Page
- 987 - 998
PubMed ID
- 2594894
Pubmed Central ID
- 2594894
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0033-2917
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1017/s0033291700005717
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England