We also used a depressive symptom score derived by summing scores for depression, depressive ideas, poor concentration, sleep problems, and fatigue to account for subthreshold symptoms.
Infection with either agent was not associated with symptoms reflecting clinically relevant levels of concentration difficulties, fatigue, depression, depressive ideas or overall psychiatric morbidity.
Those seropositive for T. gondii were not more likely to report symptoms reflecting clinically relevant levels of fatigue, concentration difficulties, depression, depressive ideas or overall psychiatric morbidity than those who were seronegative (Table 1).
The CIS-R assesses the presence and severity of 14 different common psychological symptoms (somatic symptoms, fatigue, concentration/memory problems, sleep problems, irritability, worry about physical health, depression, depressive ideas, worry, free-floating anxiety, phobias, panic, compulsions and obsessions).
31 The CIS-Sn includes sections introducing each symptom group: fatigue, lack of concentration and forgetfulness, irritability, worry about physical health, depression, depressive ideas, worry, anxiety, panic, compulsions and obsessions.
Common mental disorder (CMD) was assessed with the Revised Clinical Interview Schedule (CIS-R), a structured interview that enquires about the following symptoms: fatigue, sleep problems, irritability, worry, depression, depressive ideas, anxiety, obsessions, memory and concentration, somatic symptoms, compulsions, phobias, physical health worries and panic.
For this study we utilized data from the sections relating to fatigue, concentration difficulties, depression and depressive ideas as assessment of psychiatric outcome.
Furthermore, given the high risk of suicide amongst farmers as an occupational group[ 9], we also investigated associations between infection with either organism and symptoms of depression or depressive ideas.
Atina Grossmann, a historian at Cooper Union who has written about the displaced-persons camps of postwar Germany, said attitudes reflected in the case files were widespread at the time, shaped in part by pre-Depression ideas about pauperism, and by a mix of pity and contempt for the "D.P.'s," as they were widely known.
The Student Minds ripple campaign, for students experiencing low mood and depression, has ideas that you could try out.
