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Somatic symptoms among older depressed primary care patients

✍ Scribed by Bart Sheehan; Christopher Bass; Richard Briggs; Robin Jacoby

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 34 KB
Volume: 18
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/gps.858

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✦ Synopsis

Comparison of mean SCL-12 scores for depressed and non-depressed primary care attenders. MWU ¼ Mann-Whitney U-test score. p ¼ significance. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001. Partial correlation coefficient rates correlation of SCL-12 scores with GMS level of depression, after controlling for physical disorder.

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