An Exploratory Study On Depression in Iranian Addicts
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- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Social Psychiatry
- Vol. 26 (3) , 196-199
Abstract
For the purpose of measuring the degree of depression among drug addicts in Iran, the Beck Depression Inventory was administered to 50 addicts, 46 depressed non-addicts, and 48 normal controls. Statistical comparison of the BDI for the three groups yielded a significant difference between the addicts and the controls, whereas the difference between the addicts and the depressed non-addicts was not significant; this indicates that depression is one of the clinical symptoms of drug addiction in Iran.Keywords
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