Table 2.
Diagnostic criteria for depression based on DSM-IV
| Based on the nine-item depression module from the MINI participants are classified in the following way: | |
| • Major depressive episode: Five or more symptoms, including one of the key symptoms | |
| • Sub-threshold depressive symptoms: Two to four symptoms, may or may not include a key symptom | |
| • Non-depressed: None or one symptom | |
| Symptoms: | |
| 1. | Depressed mooda |
| 2. | Loss of interesta |
| 3. | Significant weight loss or gain or decrease or increase in appetite |
| 4. | Insomnia or hypersomnia |
| 5. | Psychomotor agitation or retardation |
| 6. | Fatigue or loss of energy |
| 7. | Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt |
| 8. | Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness |
| 9. | Recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or suicide attempt or a specific plan |
aKey symptom.