Dexamethasone Suppression Test Testing of Depressed Alcoholics
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research
- Vol. 10 (1) , 59-60
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1986.tb05615.x
Abstract
In order to determine the sensitivity of the dexamethasone suppression test (DST) for major depression in alcoholics, we administered this test to 27 alcoholics with major depression. Sixteen of 27 had abnormal DST results, yielding a 59% sensitivity for depression in alcoholics. When combined with previously reported specificity findings of 100%, the DST significantly (p < 0.001) distinguished depressed from nondepressed alcoholics.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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