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- Title
Comparison of executive performance in major depressive disorder patients with and without ADHD admitting to Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Zanjan in 2012.
- Authors
Shabani, Mina
- Abstract
Introduction: ADHD is a psychiatric disorder characterized by inappropriate levels of lack of attention, irritability, impulsivity and hyperactivity. ADHD in adults with major depressive disorder is seen with a different outbreak. In recent years, vari ous studies have been conducted on the association between mood disorders and ADHD with executive performance. The present study was conducted to compare the executive function of major depressive disorder patients with and without ADHD. Materials and Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted on 122 patients with major depressive disorder. Hamilton Depression Test was used to assess the presence of major depressive disorder and UDI criteria was applied to evaluate attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults. Patients were also evaluated for executive performance by Wisconsin card sorting test. Results: The mean general error and other errors of patients with major depressive disorder with ADHD was 36.04 and 23.1, which was quite higher than the scores of; i.e. 26.91 and 12.16, respectively (P = 0.0001). There was no significant difference in the degree of error between two groups. There was a significant difference between two groups of (19.06) and major depressive disorder patients without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (9.15) in terms of the mean of other errors and hospitalization. (p=0.0001) Conclusion and suggestions: The present study confirms more severe function disorder in patients with ADHD and depression mainly in the domain of general error and other errors not incidence error and also acute phase of depression (hospitalization). It is advisable to use a healthy control group in future studies for comparison and homogenization of the groups in terms of demographic variables. Using a set of tests is more useful in evaluating executive function.
- Subjects
WISCONSIN; MENTAL depression; WISCONSIN Card Sorting Test; ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; AFFECTIVE disorders; MENTAL illness
- Publication
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences / Progress in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, 2018, p169
- ISSN
1735-8639
- Publication type
Article