The impact of the intensity of single symptoms on the diagnosis and prevalence of major depression

Diagnoses are based on algorithms which count symptoms. The question is whether all or only sufficiently severe complaints of patients should qualify as diagnostic criteria and how prevalence rates of mental disorders change when all or only moderate or severe complaints are counted as symptoms in diagnostic algorithms.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - June 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Michael Linden, Katharina Rath Source Type: research