The role of social support in the functioning of patients with unipolar depression
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 April 1983
Joseph A. Flaherty, F. Moises Gaviria, Ed Black, E Altman, Tom M. Mitchell
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The authors studied 44 outpatients with unipolar depression to determine the association among social support systems, life events, social adjustment, and depressive symptoms, and data corroborate the hypothesis thatsocial support systems play a critical role in the ongoing functioning of a defined group of depressed patients.
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The authors studied 44 outpatients with unipolar depression to determine the association among social support systems, life events, social adjustment, and depressive symptoms. Social support had a reasonably high correlation with outcome measures. Patients with high social support had significantly better scores than those with low social support on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and the Social Adjustment Rating Scale Self-Report. These data corroborate the hypothesis that social support systems play a critical role in the ongoing functioning of a defined group of depressed patients.
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