The authors studied on some clinical features of involutional depression. Subjects were 111 patients of involutional depression who visited neuropsychiatric department of In-Je Medical College Hospital, from Jan. 1975 to Dec. 1979. The results were as follows. 1. The cases of involutional depression weremore frequent in female than in male, (male-24 cases, female 87cases). The sex ratio was-1 : 3.6. The mean age of the subjects was 52.3 ± 4 .1 years. 2. All spouses of male patients were . alive but 24 out of 84 spouses of female patients were dead. . 3. At the time of the visits 78.2% of female cases was in menopausal state and the averageage of the menopause was 53 years. 4. Premorbid personality was obsessive-compulsive in 45% of the subjects. 5. The clinical symptoms were predominantly somatic than psychic in both sexes. 6. The most frequent precipitating factors in both sexes were serious physical illness and change in financial state. The common precipitating factors in male, were change in financial state, serious physical illness and change in work condition and those in female were ssrious physical illness, death of close family member and conflict with spouse, in that order.
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