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dc.creatorRuiz T,Aída
dc.creatorSilva I,Hernán
dc.creatorMiranda C,Eduardo
dc.date2001-06-01
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dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872001000600005
dc.identifier.urihttps://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/105840
dc.descriptionBackground: The Hamilton scale, applied by an external evaluator and the self rating Beck inventory for depression, can give discrepant results in psychiatric patients with depression. Aim: To compare depression scores obtained with the Hamilton scale and the Beck inventory in general medical patients. Patients and methods: Patients attending an outpatient clinic of a University Hospital were studied. Clinical psychiatric diagnoses were based on DSM-III. Hamilton scale was applied to 100 patients and 80 answered the Beck depression inventory. Results: Patients with major depression obtained the higher scores with both scales. However, Beck inventory had false positive and false negative results. Moreover, some patients overstated their depressive symptoms. Conclusions: self assessment of depression can be distorted by anxiety and somatic symptoms. (Rev Méd Chile 2001; 129: 627-33)
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dc.publisherSociedad Médica de Santiago
dc.relation10.4067/S0034-98872001000600005
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceRevista médica de Chile v.129 n.6 2001
dc.subjectDepression
dc.subjectDepressive disorder
dc.subjectPsychiatry
dc.subjectPsychotic disorders
dc.titleDiagnóstico clínico y psicométrico de la depresión en pacientes de medicina general


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