Showing papers by "Conor Duggan published in 1991"
TL;DR: The hypothesis that recurrent or chronic depressive illness produces a long-term change in neuroticism was examined in a sample of 89 depressed patients admitted to the Maudsley Hospital in 1965/6 and the hypothesis was not supported.
Abstract: The hypothesis that recurrent or chronic depressive illness produces a long-term change in neuroticism was examined in a sample (N = 34) from a consecutive series of 89 depressed patients admitted to the Maudsley Hospital in 1965/6. The Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) was administered at the time of the index illness both when the patients were depressed and on recovery, and then again at follow-up 18 years later. The change in the neuroticism (N) score over the 18-year-period was compared in good and poor outcome groups defined variously by a global rating of outcome, frequency of episodes, extent of subsequent hospitalization and the presence or absence of subsequent chronicity. The mean N score for the sample as a whole did not change significantly over the 18 years, and no differential change in the N score was observed between any of the good and poor outcome groups. Thus, the hypothesis was not supported.
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TL;DR: Severe dysphoria, past alcoholism and chronic physical illness were most predictive of suicidal attempting; however, different variables predicted the frequency, degree of intent and severity of medical threat of subsequent suicidal attempts.
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TL;DR: In 1965 and 1966, a consecutive series of 89 patients admitted to the Maudsley Hospital, London, England, with depressive illness were interviewed, and various personality questionnaires were administered; 18 years later, they were followed up and reinterviewed.
Abstract: • In 1965 and 1966, a consecutive series of 89 patients admitted to the Maudsley Hospital, London, England, with depressive illness were interviewed, and various personality questionnaires were administered; 18 years later, they were followed up and reinterviewed. Then, on the basis of the index data alone and without knowledge of their eventual outcomes, they were subtyped according to the Research Diagnostic Criteria, DSM-III , Newcastle Index, and Present State Examination diagnostic criteria. Patients who met the various subtype criteria at index were compared with those who did not in respect to their long-term outcome. Subtyping had little prognostic utility except for three endogenous criteria that were all associated with poor outcome. In addition, DSM-III melancholia had an interactive effect with the personality measure neuroticism, so that those melancholic patients who at index had high neuroticism scores were very likely to have a poor outcome.
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