Longitudinal Studies of Diurnal Variations in Depression: A Sample of 643 Patient Days
- 1 September 1973
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 123 (574) , 311-318
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.123.3.311
Abstract
Diurnal variations in symptom intensity have long been recognized as a characteristic feature of depression, and have always had a prominent place in clinical descriptions of the illness. A worsening of depression in the morning has classically been associated with endogenous depression, while a worsening in the evening has been described as characteristic of reactive or neurotic depression (Kiloh and Garside, 1963; Winokur, Clayton and Reich, 1969). Yet, in spite of the widely held belief of the diagnostic relevance of diurnal patterns, little systematic research on these patterns has been reported.Keywords
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