Am J Psychiatry 1993; 150:1257-1258
Copyright © 1993 by American Psychiatric Association
Anxious and nonanxious depression
RT Joffe, RM Bagby and A Levitt
Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada.
The authors used the anxiety summary score described by Clayton and
associates to assess anxious and nonanxious subtypes of depression in a
group of 134 outpatients with major depression. Patients with anxious
depression were only slightly less likely to respond to their first
tricyclic antidepressant than patients with nonanxious depression. When
functional severity or symptom severity was controlled for, this
differential treatment response did not hold.
