Latent Class Analysis in Depression, Including Clinical and Functional Variables: Evidence of a Complex Depressive Subtype in Primary Care in Chile

CONCLUSIONS: This study can provide additional evidence that depression, specifically in female gender, could be better understood as a complex heterogeneous disorder when clinical and functional indicators are studied. Furthermore, adverse life experiences starting in childhood could lead to a differentiated complex depressive subtype.PMID:33628499 | PMC:PMC7895584 | DOI:10.1155/2021/6629403

Source: Depression Research and Treatment - February 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ver ónica Vitriol Alfredo Cancino Carlos Serrano Soledad Ballesteros Marcela Ormaz ábal Marcelo Leiva-Bianchi Carolina Salgado Cristian C áceres Soledad Potthoff Francisca Orellana Andrea Asenjo Source Type: research