Depressed patients and non-psychiatric controls: discriminant analysis on social environment variables.
A set of variables from the social environment (e.g. social contacts, confiding relationships, leisure activities, loneliness) was used to differentiate between a consecutive series of 111 patients diagnosed as having a depressive illness and a sample of 98 non-psychiatric controls. The function derived from the discriminant analysis correctly classified 83% of the subjects. The results indicate shortcomings in the social environment of depressives and point to the discriminating power of such variables.
D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012306:Risk; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support