Participants |
Diagnosis: Major depressive disorder. DSM‐III‐R.
Inclusion criteria: 20‐60 years, no seasonal pattern, at least 2 episodes of major depression in life time, and at least one episode during the last 2 years, at least one episode in another season, HDRS (21‐item) more than 20.
Exclusion criteria: bipolar depression, panic disorder, alcoholism or drug abuse, antisocial or histrionic personality disorder, schizophrenia, organic brain impairment, mental retardation, physical illness or medical contranindications for imipramine, endocrine disease history, pregnancy, drugs causing depression during the past month, eye diseases.
N = 34 (29 completers).
Age: mean 42.6 years (completers).
Sex: F 22, M 12.
Setting: inpatients. |