Prediction of the three-year course of recurrent depression in primary care patients: Different risk factors for different outcomes

The objectives of this study are: (1) identification of predictors for the three-year course of recurrent depression in the rarely studied, but relevant sample of primary care patients, and (2) investigation whether different outcome indicators, time to recurrence, proportion depression-free time and mean severity of depressive symptoms during follow-up, are associated with different risk factors.Depression course was established by assessing...