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KMID : 0377619870520120755
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1987 Volume.52 No. 12 p.755 ~ p.763
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Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in School-Age Children- A Discriminant Analysis of Major Depressive Symptoms for the Diagnosis of Childhood Depression
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Abstract
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This study was done for the purpose of identifying symptoms with discriminating power in the diagnosis of childhood depression by DSM-III criteria. The data were obtained from 155 primary school age children and their parents through interviews with the depres-sion section of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC) and the Diagnostic
Interview Schedule for Parents (DISP), which were developed by A. Costello (1984) with the collaboration of NIMH. The author analyzed the data by discriminant analysis and discussed the results that revealed as follows;
1. The most powerful discriminant variable was loss of interest in all cases regardless to the differences of information source (DISC or DISP) and school age group (lower or
higher grade).
2. As other depressive symptoms that have discriminate power between normal and depressive disorder, irritability, decreased attention, and social withdrawal in lower grade DISC group; psychomotor agitation, loss of energy, and worthlessness in higher grade-DISC group; psychomotor agitation, conduct problem, aggressive behavior, loss of energy, decreas-ed attention, loss of appetite, somatic symptom, no pleasure to reward in lower grade-DISP group; and finally change in school work, separation, suicide, social withdrawal, under-achievement, irritability, crying, and phobia in higher grade - DISP group, were identified.
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