Who receives depression-specific treatment? A secondary data-based analysis of outpatient care received by over 780,000 statutory health-insured individuals diagnosed with depression.

Purpose: This study examined the effects of individual and regional characteristics on receiving depression-specific treatment in the statutory health-insured population of Bavaria (83% of the population).

Methods: Data of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Bavaria were analysed for prevalence, diagnosis of and treatment for depression in outpatient care by considering individual and regional characteristics.

Results: Prevalence of diagnosed depression was 9.

The Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) reconsidered: validation and reference values from different clinical and healthy adult samples.

Objective: The aim was to translate, revise, and standardize the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) by Levenstein et al. (1993) in German. The instrument assesses subjectively experienced stress independent of a specific and objective occasion.

Biopsychosocial predictors of fatigue in quiescent and mild ulcerative colitis - an explorative study.

In 37 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) and 40 patients without IPAA fatigue was measured using the Short Form Giessen Subjective Complaints List GBB 24. Age, sex, disease activity (measured by the Colitis Activity Index CAI or the Pouch Disease Activity Index PDAI) and depressiveness (measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale or the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale), active medical comorbidities and therapy by corticosteroids were tested for their predictive capacity regarding fatigue. One third of the patients indicated fatigue scores above the 95th percentile of the score of the general German population.