Prevalence of clinically significant depressive symptoms in black and white patients in family practice settings
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 145 (7) , 882-883
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.7.882
Abstract
The authors administered the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale to 764 black and 773 white adult outpatients in primary care settings. There was no significant difference between the races in prevalence of depressive symptoms or distribution of symptom severity levels.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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