1. Rating depression and anxiety after mastectomy: observer versus self-rating scales.
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Grandi S, Fava GA, Cunsolo A, Saviotti FM, Ranieri M, Trombini G, and Gozzetti G
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- Adjustment Disorders diagnosis, Adult, Aged, Anxiety Disorders diagnosis, Depressive Disorder diagnosis, Female, Humans, Interview, Psychological, Middle Aged, Personality Assessment, Personality Inventory, Adjustment Disorders psychology, Anxiety Disorders psychology, Breast Neoplasms psychology, Depressive Disorder psychology, Mastectomy, Radical psychology, Mastectomy, Segmental psychology
- Abstract
Paykel's Clinical Interview for Depression (CID), an observer-rated scale, and Kellner's Symptom Questionnaire (SQ), a self-rating inventory, were administered to twenty-six patients with breast cancer: 1) the day prior to discharge after mastectomy or lumpectomy, 2) after six months, during a follow-up outpatient visit. There were no significant changes in depression and anxiety (except for self-rated anxiety) and, indeed, there were very high test-retest correlations. Observer and self-rated assessments were significantly related, and these correlations improved on outpatient follow-up. DSM-III-R diagnoses of affective illness (mood and anxiety disorders) based on pre-established cut-offs of the CID, showed considerable stability, particularly as to major depressive illness.
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- 1990
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