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An enquiry into recurrent brief depressive episodes in the general population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

R.P. Snaith
R.P. Snaith*
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University of Leeds, 30 Gledhow Wood Road,Leeds, LS8 4BZ, UK
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Summary

Spontaneous remarks to the author concerning the experience of brief depressive episodes prompted an enquiry into the experience of these in the general population. The finding that a high proportion of subjects admitting to the experience of recurring brief depression, that the episodes were generally of less than 24 hours' duration, suggests that allowance should be made for such very brief episodes in future enquiry of the topic, as these would not be recognised by the criteria for recurrent brief depression in the ICD and DSM definitions. There was no association of duration of episode with either age or gender. There did not appear to be an association of episode duration with possible precipitants of stress, climatic conditions, season of year or dietary factors.

Keywords

affective disordersgeneral populationrecurrent brief depression
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European Psychiatry , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , June 2000 , pp. 261 - 263
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Copyright © Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS 2000

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