Depressive symptoms and measures of disability: a prospective study
Journal of Affective DisordersPublished 1 April 1993
Wayne Katon, Mark D. Sullivan, Joan Russo, Robert A. Dobie, Connie Sakai
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The results suggest that there was a significant correlation between improvement in both major depression and depression-NOS symptoms, and decreases in measures of functional disability in an aging population with a chronic medical illness.
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The results suggest that there was a significant correlation between improvement in both major depression and depression-NOS symptoms, and decreases in measures of functional disability in an aging population with a chronic medical illness.
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