Journal of Depression and Anxiety
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Carlo Maggini

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• Research Article
  Negative Affective Features in 516 Cases of First Psychotic Disorder Episodes: Relationship to Suicidal Risk
  Author(s): Paola Salvatore, Ross J. Baldessarini, Hari-Mandir K. Khalsa, Premananda Indic, Carlo Maggini and Mauricio Tohen Paola Salvatore, Ross J. Baldessarini, Hari-Mandir K. Khalsa, Premananda Indic, Carlo Maggini and Mauricio Tohen
  
  Objectives: Plausible candidates of psychopathological phenomena that may associate with or anticipate suicidal risk, include negative effects, including admixtures of dysphoria, depression and anxiety described mainly in nonpsychotic disorders. We ascertained the distribution of such affective features in various first-episode psychotic disorders and correlated these and other clinical and antecedent features with intake suicidal status. Methods: We evaluated 516 adult subjects in first-lifetime episodes of various DSM-IV-TR psychotic disorders. Blinded, protocol-guided, assessments of clinical features ascertained in SCID  examinations, self- and family reports and clinical records supported analyses of associations of suicide attempts at first-psychotic episodes with antecedent and intake clinical characteristics, including negative affects and diagnoses, using standard.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1044.1000131

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