• 作者：Mar Rivas^a ; ^b ; ^{mar.rivas@uam.es} ; Roberto Nuevo^b ; José ; Luis Ayuso-Mateos^a ; ^b
• 关键词：Depresió ; n subclí ; nica ; Prevalencia ; Estado de salud
• 刊名：Revista de Psiquiatr铆a y Salud Mental
• 出版年：2011
• 期刊代码：pca395_18889891
• 类别：psy
• 出版时间：July-September 2011
• 卷：4
• 期：3
• 页码：144-149
• 文件大小：134 K

Introduction

Subclinical depression is a prevalent condition with important implications for patients鈥?functioning and wellbeing. However, there is a lack of studies operationalising its definition and studying its clinical significance and health impact in depth. This work analyses subclinical depression impact on a health satus score derived from eight heath domains, and its prevalence in Spanish population.

Methods

The sample was selected from World Health Survey database, choosing the answers for Spain of people with a dignosis of subclinical depression and no depressive disorders.

Results

Controlling the interaction of the different demographic variables, being female was the only significant predictor for the presence of subclinical depression. A worse health status is associated with subclinical depression, being female, a higher age, lower incomes, less years of formal education and being widowed. The decrease is significant in the eight health domains composing the score.

Conclusions

The necessity of a better conceptualization of the nature of clinical depression is highlighted, going in depth in different proposals defending a definition based on clinical signification rather than in the number of depressive symptoms, with the goal of avoiding the pathologization of human suffering and inherent distress to several vital situations.