The Evaluation of Psychiatric Illness in Asian Patients by the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale
- 30 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 155 (4) , 545-547
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.155.4.545
Abstract
Twenty Asian psychiatric patients suffering from neurotic illness completed the Urdu version of the HAD Scale. The results were compared with the Clinical Interview Schedule. Somatic symptoms were significantly related to various measures of anxiety but not to those of depression. This finding contradicts the previously held view of linking somatic symptoms with the presentation of depression.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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