The dexamethasone suppression test in acute grief
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 143 (7) , 879-881
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.7.879
Abstract
Nineteen recently widowed women and men were given diagnostic interviews, psychometric evaluations, and dexamethasone suppression tests (DSTs). While 58% of the subjects (N = 11) met Research Diagnostic Criteria for depression, only 16% (N = 3) were nonsuppressors on the DST. In this population, nonsuppression was related more to levels of anxiety than to depression.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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