Conference paper
DEPRESSION OR DEPRESSIVENESS IN PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH ANOREXIA NERVOSA AND BULIMIA NERVOSA – PILOT RESEARCH
Ewa Dêbska
; Students’ Scientific Society of Psychiatry Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Adam Janas
; Students’ Scientific Society of Psychiatry Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Wojciech Bañczyk
; Students’ Scientific Society of Psychiatry Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Małgorzata Janas–Kozik
; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, John Paul II Pediatric Center, Sosnowiec, Poland
Abstract
Objectives: The target of this work is to consider if depressive symptoms intercurrent with patients suffering from Anorexia
Nervosa (AN) and Bulimia Nervosa (BN) form a depression complex or whether they are physiological depression accompanying
adolescence. We wished to observe the perception of these patients,of their functioning, both social and within their families and also
looking for common point in the issues mentioned above trying to locate them within the course of the basic illness.
Subjects and methods: We studied 19 patients suffering from eating disorders, and aged between 12 and 24 years old. 15 of
them suffered from the restrictive form of AN and 4 suffered from BN. The control group consisted of 30 healthy girls in the same age
interval. In the study authors used the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Quebec Quality of Life Questionnaire.
Results: Comparison of a number of points acquired in the survey using Beck Depression Scale revealed statistic significance at
the level p<0.001 which points to a more frequent occurrence of depression symptoms among persons with eating disorders
comparing to control group. The survey using the Questionnaire for Social Quality showed no statistically significant differences
between study and control groups (p>0.05). The authors observed a statistically significant increased frequency of suicidal thoughts
in the study group compared to the controls.
Conclusions: To diagnose depression, depressive symptoms presented by the patients must give the image of depression at the
clinical level. The result of the Beck's scale needs to be confronted with the clinical picture. Depression in adolescence requires
differentiation from depressiveness.
Keywords
depression; eating disorders; depressiveness
Hrčak ID:
264678
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Publication date:
1.9.2011.
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