This current article provides a theoretical revision of the minor depression concept, in order to elucidate the gap and scope of this diagnosis, not yet known at the present. There is a confusion with it's definition, ...

Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a public health problem with high prevalence in Chile. Many factors are associated with PPD. Aim: To analyze the factors associated with the incidence of depressive symptoms (SD) ...

To perform a systematic review of the utility of the Beck Depression Inventory for detecting depression in medical settings, this article focuses on the revised version of the scale (Beck Depression Inventory-II), which ...

This paper proposes a phenomenological approach to the diagnosis of depression, with the aim of overcoming the broadness and nonspecificity of the concept of major depressive disorder (MDD) in current systems of diagnostic ...

Background Depression symptomatology was assessed with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) in a sample of Jewish adolescents, in order to compare the frequency and severity of depression with non-Jewish adolescents as well ...

Introduction A new mood rating scale for mixed states of depression along with manic-like excitatory symptoms, the Koukopoulos Mixed Depression Rating Scale (KMDRS), was assessed in a post hoc analysis of a randomized ...

Depressive disorders are a leading cause of disability and are globally pervasive. It is estimated that 80% of depression occurs in low-income and middle-income countries. Depression is associated with worse outcomes in ...