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- Title
Depression in adults with intellectual disability. Part 2: A pilot study.
- Authors
Davis JP; Judd FK; Herrman H
- Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To identify adults with intellectual disability (ID) with a depressive disorder referred to a tertiary consultation clinic for psychiatric assessment; to investigate common presenting features of depression in adults with ID; to assess the utility of visual analogue scale (VAS) measures of emotion/behaviour, the CORE measure of psychomotor disturbance, and substitutive diagnostic criteria in the assessment of depressive disorders in this patient group. METHOD: Over a 6-month period 47 patients were seen for psychiatric evaluation. Patients in whom a diagnosis of depression was made were further assessed using: VAS measures of depression, irritability, verbal aggression, physical aggression, temper outbursts, regressed behaviour; CORE measure of psychomotor disturbance; and substitutive diagnostic criteria designed by the authors. RESULTS: Ten patients were found to have a depressive disorder. Substitutive criteria resulted in a greater rate of diagnosis than standard DSM-IV criteria. The VAS measure of irritability was highly scored for all 10 depressed patients. All 10 depressed patients were assigned to the melancholic subgroup according to CORE score. CONCLUSIONS: Standard assessment measures and diagnostic criteria may require modification to enhance their utility in this patient group. Melancholic features require further investigation.
- Publication
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1997, Vol 31, Issue 2, p243
- ISSN
0004-8674
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3109/00048679709073827