| Title: |
Male depression – actual a male specific disorder or potentially a new subtype of depression? |
| Authors: |
Rößner-Ruff, V.; Krieger, J.; Graef-Calliess, I.T. |
| Source: |
European Psychiatry ; volume 41, issue S1, page S324-S324 ; ISSN 0924-9338 1778-3585 |
| Publisher Information: |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publication Year: |
2017 |
| Description: |
Introduction Although depression is one of the most prevalent disorders around the world we know only little about the effect of factors like gender-related norms or personality-related aspects in the expression of depressive symptoms. Current findings of studies are heterogeneous and lead to the conclusion that depression is more prevalent in women as well as that they have a higher risk for depression. Women express more typical depressive symptoms while men offer more atypical symptoms like aggressiveness, irritability, alcohol misuse which is constituted as male depression (MD). Objective Male and female patients with a diagnosis of depressive episode or recurrent depressive disorder (ICD-10) who are treated in in-patient or day clinic setting of two psychiatric institutions in Lower Saxony and one psychiatric university hospital in Austria. Study period: November 2016 to November 2017. No limitations to further diagnosis, age or other factors. Methods To analyze the expression of (a) typical depressive symptoms as well as causes of and factors of influence in diverse types of depression different questionnaires and quantitative methods will be used. Aims Investigate gender-specific differences in the expression of symptoms in male and female patients with a depressive disorder. Focus: whether symptoms of MD are more prevalent for depressive men than women. Furthermore, causes and factors of (a)typical depressive symptoms should be analyzed. Results First results will be presented. Conclusion The results of the study should lead to the conclusion whether there exist any gender-specific differences in the expression of depressive symptoms and what they might be caused by. Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.02.252 |
| Availability: |
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| Rights: |
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| Accession Number: |
edsbas.8001328A |
| Database: |
BASE |