Symptom networks of common mental disorders in public versus private healthcare settings in India.

ABSTRACT: We present a series of network analyses aiming to uncover the symptom constellations of depression, anxiety and somatization among 2,796 adult primary health care attendees in Goa, India, a low- and middle-income country (LMIC). Depression and anxiety are the leading neuropsychiatric causes of disability. Yet, the diagnostic boundaries and the characteristics of their dynamically intertwined symptom constellations remain obscure, particularly in non-Western settings. Regularized partial correlation networks were estimated and the diagnostic boundaries were explored using community detection analysis. The global and local connectivity of network structures of public versus private healthcare settings and treatment responders versus nonresponders were compared with a permutation test. Overal

SUBMITTER: Sonmez CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11894409 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature