Network structure of depression and anxiety symptoms in Chinese female nursing students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Comorbidity between depressive and anxiety disorders is common. From network perspective, mental disorders arise from direct interactions between symptoms and comorbidity is due to direct interactions between depression and anxiety symptoms. The current study investigates the network structure of depression and anxiety symptoms in Chinese female nursing students and identifies the central and bridge symptoms as well as how other symptoms in present network are related to depression symptom "thoughts of death".

Methods

To understand the full spectrum of depression and anxiety, we recruited 776 Chinese female nursing students with symptoms of depression and anxiety that span the full range of normal to abnormal. Depression symptoms were measured by Patient Health Qu

SUBMITTER: Ren L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8168020 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature