title: Distinctive clinical characteristics and suicidal tendencies of patients with anxious depression.
abstract: This study evaluated clinical characteristics and suicidality of patients with anxious depression in a large cohort of samples. Data were collected from 1003 patients who were depressed. A total of 461 patients were diagnosed with anxious depression and 542 were diagnosed with nonanxious depression. After adjusting for the severity of depression, those in the anxious depression group had significantly younger onset age, had been suffering from depression for a longer period, were more likely to experience a recurrence, and obtained lower scores on a scale assessing quality of life. The anxious depression group was characterized by a significantly higher proportion of individuals reporting significant suicidal ideation and previous suicide attempts, and those in this group tended to obtain higher scores on the Scale for Suicide Ideation. The present findings that were drawn from detailed evaluation of suicidality strongly support previous results assessed only with the help of clinical reports. More attention should be paid to assess suicide risk in these patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ho-Jun
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.forename: Young-Eun
authors.initials: YE
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Tae-Suk
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jung-Bum
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Min-Soo
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jae-Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hyun-Woo
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Tae-Youn
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Jun
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D059020:Suicidal Ideation