The clinical correlates of comorbid anxiety symptoms and syndromal anxiety in patients with major depressive disorder

A growing number of studies based on community and clinical samples have reported that patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) experience a high level of co-occurring anxiety symptoms and/or at least one anxiety disorder. For example, in a European community-based study Braam et al., (2014) reported that up to 86.2% of participants with late life depression endorsed at least three distinct anxiety symptoms (Braam et al., 2014). Fava et al. reported 45.1% ∼ 53.2% of patients with MDD had significant anxiety, recording scores of 7 or above on the Anxiety/Somatization factor of the 17-Item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD-17) (Fava et al., 2004; Fava et al., 2008; Fava et al., 2006).

Source: Psychiatry Research - July 15, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Zhiguo Wu, Lan Cao, Daihui Peng, David Mellor, Chen Zhang, Haozhe Li, Zuowei Wang, Yanyan Song, Chunbo Li, Yiru Fang Source Type: research