PMID- 19645810
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20091102
LR  - 20090803
IS  - 1471-6712 (Electronic)
IS  - 0283-9318 (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 2
DP  - 2009 Jun
TI  - Sense of coherence and psychiatric morbidity in terms of anxiety and depression 
      in patients with major depression before and after electric convulsive treatment.
PG  - 375-9
LID - 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2008.00658.x [doi]
AB  - The specific aim of this study was to explore if the Sense of Coherence (SOC) 
      Scale reflects and overlaps with standardized psychiatric assessments of 
      depression and anxiety leading to the main hypothesis that the degree of 
      depression decreases while the SOC scores remain stable. Fifteen patients with a 
      diagnosis of major depression according to Axis I in DSM-IV and planned electric 
      convulsive treatment (ECT) participated in the study. The clinician-rated 
      instruments, Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) and Global 
      Assessment of Function (GAF), and the self-assessment instruments such as SOC and 
      the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale-Self Rating Scale for Affective 
      Syndromes (CPRS-S-A) were used before and after the treatment. The patients 
      showed statistically significant improvements in clinician-rated depression (p < 
      0.001) and functional status (p < 0.001), and in self-rated anxiety (p = 0.001) 
      and depression (p = 0.003). There was no significant improvement in SOC (p = 
      0.213). No significant correlations were found between the SOC scores and any of 
      the measures except for GAF after treatment (r = 0.57, p = 0.039); the lower the 
      SOC scores the greater was the functional dysfunction. In conclusion, the SOC 
      Scale seems not to be a measure of psychopathology in terms of depression or 
      anxiety merely.
FAU - Langius-Eklof, Ann
AU  - Langius-Eklof A
AD  - School of Health and Medical Sciences, Orebro University, Orebro, Sweden. 
      ann.langius-eklof@oru.se
FAU - Samuelsson, Mats
AU  - Samuelsson M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Sweden
TA  - Scand J Caring Sci
JT  - Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
JID - 8804206
MH  - *Adaptation, Psychological
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Anxiety/*psychology/therapy
MH  - Depressive Disorder, Major/*psychology/therapy
MH  - *Electroconvulsive Therapy
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Sweden
EDAT- 2009/08/04 09:00
MHDA- 2009/11/03 06:00
CRDT- 2009/08/04 09:00
PHST- 2009/08/04 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/08/04 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/11/03 06:00 [medline]
AID - SCS658 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2008.00658.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Scand J Caring Sci. 2009 Jun;23(2):375-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2008.00658.x.