Self‐reported Depressive Symptoms in Myasthenia Gravis
作者:
Justin Fisher,
Kari Parkinson,
Milind Kothari,
期刊:
Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease
(OVID Available online 2003)
卷期:
Volume 4,
issue 3
页码: 105-108
ISSN:1522-0443
年代: 2003
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
&NA;It is well known that patients with a chronic medical illness experience major depression at a higher rate than the general population. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of depression among patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) who were referred to a Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic. Forty‐five patients with a diagnosis of MG were evaluated with a self‐administered survey regarding various typical somatic and psychologic symptoms of depression (the Beck Depression Inventory [BDI]) and then scored according to the BDI guidelines. Thirty‐three percent of these patients generated scores suggestive of depression (24% were categorized as mildly depressed, 7% as moderately depressed, and 2% as severely depressed). These results suggest that patients with MG patients experience depression at a higher rate than the general population and at a similar rate as patients with other chronic illnesses.
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