Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:882-883
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
Prevalence of clinically significant depressive symptoms in black and white patients in family practice settings
WW Zung, J MacDonald and EM Zung
Department of Psychiatry, DUKE University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27705
The authors administered the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale to 764 black
and 773 white adult outpatients in primary care settings. There was no
significant difference between the races in prevalence of depressive
symptoms or distribution of symptom severity levels.
