A questionnaire effectively measured psychosocial functioning of patients with major depressive disorder, according to study results published in General Psychiatry.
“The importance of psychosocial functioning in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) is widely recognized,” Xiujuan Zhang, of the department of medical psychology at Nanjing Medical University in China, and colleagues wrote. “It has been found that patients with MDD have significant impairments in psychosocial functioning, and the impairments do not often entirely disappear