The impact of residual symptoms on relapse and quality of life among Thai depressive patients.

Purpose: Residual symptoms of depressive disorder are major predictors of relapse of depression and lower quality of life. This study aims to investigate the prevalence of residual symptoms, relapse rates, and quality of life among patients with depressive disorder.

Patients And Methods: Data were collected during the Thai Study of Affective Disorder (THAISAD) project.

Depression and pain: testing of serial multiple mediators.

Purpose: Despite the fact that pain is related to depression, few studies have been conducted to investigate the variables that mediate between the two conditions. In this study, the authors explored the following mediators: cognitive function, self-sacrificing interpersonal problems, and perception of stress, and the effects they had on pain symptoms among patients with depressive disorders.

Participants And Methods: An analysis was performed on the data of 346 participants with unipolar depressive disorders.

Reliability and validity of the Thai self-report version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale-Second Edition.

Purpose: The self-report version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) has been developed to overcome the limitations of the clinician-administered version, which needs to be executed by trained personnel and is time consuming. The second edition of the Y-BOCS (Y-BOCS-II) was developed to address some limitations of the original version. However, there is no self-report version of the Y-BOCS-II at the moment.

A study of diagnostic accuracy of the Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory--Thai Version (FOCI-T).

Background: The Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (FOCI) is a self-reported measure to assess the symptoms and severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which can be completed in five minutes. Although preliminary studies have shown its good psychometric properties, the study of receiver operating characteristics (ROC) to use it as a screening tool has never been reported elsewhere. This study aimed to use the ROC analysis to determine the optimal cut-off score of the Thai version of the FOCI (FOCI-T).

Attitudes of psychiatrists toward obsessive-compulsive disorder patients.

Purpose: Negative attitudes from doctors and the resulting stigmatization have a strong impact on psychiatric patients' poor access to treatment. There are various studies centering on doctors' attitudes toward psychiatric patients, but rarely focusing on the attitudes to specific disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This research aimed to focus on psychiatrists' attitudes toward OCD patients.

Reliability and validity of the Thai version of the Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory.

This study aimed to examine the reliability and validity of the Thai version of the FOCI (FOCI-T), which is a brief self-report questionnaire to assess the symptoms and severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Forty-seven OCD patients completed the FOCI-T, the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), and the Pictorial Thai Quality of Life (PTQL). They were then interviewed to determine the OCD symptom severity by the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale-Second Edition (YBOCS-II) and depressive symptoms by the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D), together with the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) and the Clinical Global Impression-Severity Scales (CGI-S).

Reliability and validity of the Thai version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale - Second Edition in clinical samples.

Purpose: The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) is regarded as the most acceptable tool for measuring obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom severity. Recently, the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale - Second Edition (Y-BOCS-II) was developed for better measurement. The study reported here aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Thai version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale - Second Edition (Y-BOCS-II-T).

Level of agreement between self-rated and clinician-rated instruments when measuring major depressive disorder in the Thai elderly: a 1-year assessment as part of the THAISAD study.

Purpose: Whether self-reporting and clinician-rated depression scales correlate well with one another when applied to older adults has not been well studied, particularly among Asian samples. This study aimed to compare the level of agreement among measurements used in assessing major depressive disorder (MDD) among the Thai elderly and the factors associated with the differences found.

Patients And Methods: This was a prospective, follow-up study of elderly patients diagnosed with MDD and receiving treatment in Thailand.

Baseline characteristics of depressive disorders in Thai outpatients: findings from the Thai Study of Affective Disorders.

Background: The Thai Study of Affective Disorders was a tertiary hospital-based cohort study developed to identify treatment outcomes among depressed patients and the variables involved. In this study, we examined the baseline characteristics of these depressed patients.

Methods: Patients were investigated at eleven psychiatric outpatient clinics at tertiary hospitals for the presence of unipolar depressive disorders, as diagnosed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition.