What does "staying well" after depression mean? Chronic low grade symptomatology after treatment for depression is common.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persistent low grade depression symptoms are common and impairing in major depressive disorder (MDD) yet rarely reported in treatment follow-up studies (Judd et al., 1998a; Kennedy et al., 2004), suggesting that extant sustained remission rates may not reflect this important clinical feature. Furthermore, no long-term MDD treatment follow-up study has reported on quality of life ratings across functioning levels and years throughout the follow-up period, thus the severity, breadth, and persistence of functional impairment remain unclear. Accordingly, the current study evaluated the course of MDD with consideration of low grade depressive symptomatology and holistic features (e.g., quality of life).

Methods

We report long-term (9-14 years) follow-up data from indiv

SUBMITTER: Strege MV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10012845 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature