Personality: a determinant in marital dissatisfaction in individuals with major depression and their couples.

Introduction: Prior research suggests that some factors account for the association between marital dissatisfaction and Major Depression. We examined whether personality determines the association between marital dissatisfaction and a First Episode of Major Depression (FEMD), and whether specific personality factors are linked to marital dissatisfaction depending on the outcome of the FEMD.

Methods: The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and the Dyadic Adjustment Scale were administered both at baseline (T1) and six months later (T2), at 6 outpatient settings.

A Spanish version of the Family Assessment Device.

Introduction: This paper presents the results of a study on the psychometric properties of an authorized Spanish version of the McMaster Family Assessment Device, a self-report measure of family functioning.

Materials And Methods: The study sample comprised 60 psychiatric patients and their family member and 60 controls, without mental health problems, and their family member.

Results: Compared to other studies, all subscales displayed adequate temporal stability and acceptable reliability.

[Validation of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) as a screening tool in the general population].

Background And Objective: To validate the best alternative cut-off point of a Spanish version of the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40) for the screening of eating disorders cases in the general population.

Subjects And Method: The translated questionnaire was administered to a representative sample of 2,734 female students who ranged in age from 13 to 22 years. Participants who scored above 21 points were interviewed, as were a random sample of participants who scored 21 or below.

Incidence of eating disorders in Navarra (Spain).

Purpose: To estimate the overall annual incidence and age group distribution of eating disorders in a representative sample of adolescent female residents of Navarra, Spain.

Methods: We studied a representative sample of 2734 adolescent Navarran females between 13 and 22 years of age who were free of any eating disorder at the start of our study. Eighteen months into the study, we visited the established centers and the eating attitudes test (EAT-40) and eating disorder inventory (EDI) Questionnaires were administered to the entire study population.

Lymphocyte subsets and lymphokine production in patients with melancholic versus nonmelancholic depression.

Several studies have reported immune changes during depression, but the results have not been fully consistent. Some of these changes could be related to the presence of melancholic features. A total of 42 depressed patients (melancholic [MEL] and nonmelancholic [non-MEL]) and 20 healthy controls participated in the study.

Monocytic parameters in patients with dysthymia versus major depression.

Background: The studies on monocytic function during depression are controversial. A better knowledge of affective disorders may improve the differential diagnosis of depression subtypes. Our goals are to examine if there are differences in monocytic function in patients with major depression and dysthymia.

Quality of Life in 833 outpatients with major depression treated with open-label venlafaxine extended release: An observational 24-week study.

BACKGROUND Quality of Life (QoL) assessments are common in medicine and, recently, in psychiatry, mostly in patients with chronic mental illness. We evaluated QoL in depressed outpatients treated with venlafaxine-XR over a period of 24 weeks. METHOD We evaluated 833 patients with DSM-IV major depression using the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D), the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A), the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MÅDRS), and the QoL in Depression Scale (QLDS).

Functional neuroanatomy of sustained attention in schizophrenia: contribution of parietal cortices.

Deficits in sustained attention have been frequently described in schizophrenia. The neuroanatomical basis reported previously have included altered levels of activation in cingulate and prefrontal cortex, but the contribution of further regions remains unclear. We explored the full neuroanatomy underlying the sustained attentional deficits observed in naïve schizophrenics compared with controls.

Self-esteem, personality, and eating disorders: baseline assessment of a prospective population-based cohort.

Objective: To study the relationship of self-esteem and personality factors with eating disorders (ED).

Methods: A region-wide representative sample of 2862 girls 12-21 years old from Navarre (Spain) participated in the baseline assessment of a prospective study. A two-stage procedure was used, consisting in a first screening phase followed by a psychiatrist interview (DSM-IV criteria).