Depression and Anxiety
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Keywords:
Adult, Aged, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depressive Disorder, Major, Female, Health Surveys, Humans, Interview, Psychological, Irritable Mood, Male, Middle Aged, Young Adult, Social Sciences, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Psychology, Clinical, Psychiatry, Psychology, epidemiology, depression, mood disorders, assessment, diagnosis, measurement, psychometrics, irritability, major depression, nosology, world mental health (WMH) surveys, GENDER-DIFFERENCES, DISABILITY, ORGANIZATION, POPULATION, PREVALENCE, SYMPTOMS, BEHAVIOR, ANXIETY, VERSION, SCALE, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1701 Psychology, 3202 Clinical sciences, 5203 Clinical and health psychology, 5205 Social and personality psychology
Abstract:
Although irritability is a core symptom of DSM-IV major depressive disorder (MDD) for youth but not adults, clinical studies find comparable rates of irritability between nonbipolar depressed adults and youth. Including irritability as a core symptom of adult MDD would allow detection of depression-equivalent syndromes with primary irritability hypothesized to be more common among males than females. We carried out a preliminary examination of this issue using cross-national community-based survey data from 21 countries in the World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys (n = 110,729).