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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

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01-05-2008 | ORIGINAL PAPER

Symptomatology of depressive state in the workplace

A 20-year cohort study

Authors: Takeaki Takeuchi, MD, MPH, PhD, Mutsuhiro Nakao, Eiji Yano

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 5/2008

Abstract

Authors investigated symptomatology of depressive state among workers in a 20-year study. A cohort of 167 men of a company in Japan, aged 18–40 years old at baseline in 1985 was researched as a study sample. Depressive symptoms were assessed by the Zung’s self-rating depression scale (SDS) consisting of 6 somatic- and 14 psychological-symptom items. In a logistic regression analysis, sleep disturbance and fatigue, and total somatic-symptom scores were related to both future and long-term depressive state (all P < 0.05), after adjusting age and other variables. Although many unrecognized cases of depression exist, they may report somatic symptoms as potential depressive state.

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Title: Symptomatology of depressive state in the workplace
A 20-year cohort study
Authors: Takeaki Takeuchi, MD, MPH, PhD
Mutsuhiro Nakao
Eiji Yano
Publication date: 01-05-2008
Publisher: Steinkopff-Verlag
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 5/2008
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-008-0306-4

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