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The Evaluation of Psychiatric Illness in Asian Patients by the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Salim Nayani
Salim Nayani*
Affiliation:
Towers Hospital, Gypsy Lane, Humberstone, Leicester
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Abstract

Twenty Asian psychiatric patients suffering from neurotic illness completed the Urdu version of the HAD Scale. The results were compared with the Clinical Interview Schedule. Somatic symptoms were significantly related to various measures of anxiety but not to those of depression. This finding contradicts the previously held view of linking somatic symptoms with the presentation of depression.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 545 - 547
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1989 

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