ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Manote Lotrakul, M.D. Urai Buranapichet, B.Sc. (Nursing)

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Feelings of Guilt in Major Depressive Patients Compared with Schizophrenic Patients, Anxiety Disorder Patients, and Normal Controls

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of The Psychiatric Association of Thailand, Vol. 44 No.1 January-March 1999, P 30-37.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Objective To study the characteristic of feelings guilt in relation to the severity of depressed mood in major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and normal controls. Method The study was conducted at the psychiatric outpatient department, Ramathibodi Hospital. Fifty subjects in each diagnostic category were studied. Normal controls were recruited from patients’ relative who revealed no psychiatric disorder from the interview. Depressive state was measured using the Thai Depression Inventory. Feelings of guilt was evaluated by a scale adapted from Berrios’s Guilt Scale. Result The reliability of the Guilt Scale was satisfactory with Cronbach’s alpha of 0.87. Exploratory factor analysis yielded two factors- ‘present guilt’ and ‘karma/sin’. Guilt was found in every diagnostic categories and was significantly correlated with depressive severity with highest level in major depressive patients. Conclusion Severity of feelings of guilt was correlated with level of depressed mood rather than with the diagnosis. The result suggested that guilt be regarded as a feeling lies along a continuum of depressive severity rather than as a present-absent dichotomy.

Keywords: guilt, major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, culture, mood disorder, psychiatry

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 1999

Address: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Rama VI Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Code: 00000113

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-6985

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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