The prevalence of seasonal affective disorder in the Netherlands:A prospective and retrospective study of seasonal mood variation in the general population
Background: The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) in The Netherlands. Methods: The subjects (n = 5356), randomly selected from community registers, were given the Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire and the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale over a period of 13 months. The response rate was 52.6%, Results: Three percent of the respondents met the criteria for winter SAD, 0.1% for summer SAD. The criteria for subsyndromal SAD, a milder form of SAD, were met by 8.5%, 0.3% of whom showed a summer pattern. Younger wome... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1999 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Mersch , PPA , Middendorp , HM , Bouhuys , AL , Beersma , DGM , van den Hoofdakker , RH & Middendorp , H M 1999 , ' The prevalence of seasonal affective disorder in the Netherlands : A prospective and retrospective study of seasonal mood variation in the general population ' , Biological Psychiatry , vol. 45 , no. 8 , pp. 1013-1022 . https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3223(98)00220-0 |
Schlagwörter: | seasonal affective disorder / prevalence / epidemiology / mood variation / FOLLOW-UP / DEPRESSION / LATITUDE |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29190604 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/31c5324d-4415-4980-9fb0-cd8f3b700b77 |