Kirsi Riihimäki

TL;DR: TCI predicts future burden of dysphoric episodes in the general population, but is a weak predictor of depression outcome in heterogeneous clinical samples.

TL;DR: In the Vantaa Primary Care Depression Study, a stratified random sample of 1119 patients was screened for depression, and Structured Clinical Interviews for DSM-IV used to diagnose Axis I and II disorders as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This prospective, naturalistic, long-term study of a representative cohort of primary care patients with depression indicated slow or incomplete recovery and a commonly recurrent course, which need to be taken into account when developing primary care services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Vantaa Primary Care Depression Study, a stratified random sample of 1119 patients representing primary care patients in a Finnish city was screened for depression with the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders.

TL;DR: Among mood disorder patients, suicide attempt risk is associated with temperament and character dimensions, however, their influence on predisposition to suicide attempts is likely to be mainly indirect, mediated by more time spent in depressive episodes.