Publications by authors named "Sergio G Henriques"
Background: Depressive symptoms and chronic disease have adverse effects on patients' health-related quality of life (H-RQOL). However, little is known about this effect on H-RQOL when only the two core depressive symptoms - loss of interest and depressed mood - are considered. The objective of this study is to investigate H-RQOL in the presence of loss of interest and depressed mood at a general medical outpatient unit.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the recognition of depressive symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD) by general practitioners.
Introduction: MDD is underdiagnosed in medical settings, possibly because of difficulties in the recognition of specific depressive symptoms.
Methods: A cross-sectional study of 316 outpatients at their first visit to a teaching general hospital.
Background: Studies investigating the performance of instruments to detect major depressive disorder (MDD) have reported inconsistent results. Subsyndromal depression (SD) has also been associated to increased morbidity, and little is known about its detection in primary care setting. This study aimed to investigate the performance of the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD) to detect MDD and any depression (threshold at SD) in an outpatient unit of a teaching general hospital.
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