Froom J, Aoyama H, Hermoni D, Mino Y, Galambos N
Department of Family Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA.
Fam Pract. 1995 Sep;12(3):274-8. doi: 10.1093/fampra/12.3.274.
Primary care patients in the United States, Israel and Japan received the Inventory to Diagnose Depression and the Dartmouth COOP Functional Status Charts modified for international use. Patients were classified as having major depressive disorder or minor depression. Although demographic characteristics varied by country, the rank order and frequency of the depressive symptoms were similar for both major and minor depression. Functional impairment was most severe in patients with major depression, less severe in those with minor depression and was least impaired in those not depressed. The results suggest that depressive disorders have similar presentations in the three countries studied, although the separate cultures confer different consequences on patients receiving these diagnoses.
美国、以色列和日本的初级保健患者接受了为国际使用而修改的抑郁症诊断量表和达特茅斯合作功能状态图表。患者被分类为患有重度抑郁症或轻度抑郁症。尽管不同国家的人口统计学特征有所不同，但重度和轻度抑郁症患者抑郁症状的排序和频率相似。功能损害在重度抑郁症患者中最为严重，在轻度抑郁症患者中较轻，而在非抑郁症患者中受损最少。结果表明，在所研究的三个国家中，抑郁症的表现相似，尽管不同文化对接受这些诊断的患者产生了不同的影响。
