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It would have been appropriate and interesting to rate patients on relevant suicidal scales (for example, for depressive symptoms, substance abuse, and self efficacy) at baseline and follow-up, to detect any difference in secondary outcomes in relation to treatment modalities.
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For example, controlling for depressive symptoms attenuated the correlation between baseline rumination and follow-up depressive symptoms from r = 0.3 to r = 0.07 (95% CI 0.03-0.11) in a meta-analysis of childhood/adolescence studies [ 3].
In concord with the observations of Van Dam et al (1998) in chemotherapy-treated breast cancer patients, we observed that patients complained, for example, of depressive mood and similar discomforts, although these were not confirmed by the Beck depression results.
By a conservative estimate, a full-blown PD case generates costs of about € 10,000 per patient per year, and a sub-clinical case generates €6,0000, even surpassing the costs of, for example, depressive disorder [ 5- 8].
For example, depressive and anxious symptoms may co-exist and develop simultaneously to disorders of depression and anxiety.
Many questionnaires focus on a particular category of mental disorders, for example depressive disorders or PTSD.
For example, depressive symptoms have also been associated with parkinsonism [ 8] and restlessness or psychomotor agitation is also a depressive symptoms (see question 16 of the QIDS-SR16).
For example, depressive symptoms were assessed with a scale that used 6-item from 20-item Center For Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (Burnam et al, 1988).
For example, depressive symptoms can be a determinant of the occurrence of falls but also can be the consequence of a fall.
For example, depressive disorders are substantially more common among adolescents and adults than among young children [ 29], and adult symptom criteria will less likely identify a valid childhood psychiatric disorder that can be reliably measured using structured diagnostic interviews [ 30].
On the other hand, it may be that comparing the outcomes other than clinical efficacy (for example depressive symptomatology, drop out rates or quality of life measures) could have contributed to a different interpretation of the results.
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