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Critical Appraisal/Synthesis Matrix (ALL 1-10)
Author/Date
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Aim of Study
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Type of literature + Type
of method
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Result/Conclusion
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Strengths &
Limitations
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Thematic Codings
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Setting/
Context
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N
Vogelzangs, HE Duivis, ATF Beekman, C Kluft, J Neuteboom, W Hoogendijk, JH
Smit, P de Jonge and BWJH Penninx
(2012)
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To
acknowledge more about the correlation between depressive disorders and
antidepressant medication and also with inflammation within the body.
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Research
Article & Cohort Research Method
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The conclusion of this
study confirmed that "immune dysregulation" was present in
depressed people, which showed a clear association of inflammation with
depression.
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The strength of this article was
that the participants of the study were all a part of a cohort group based
upon their depressive disorder. The limitations of this study was that it
only looked for inflammation within the body to associate with depressive
disorder, there could have been other health issues that could correlate.
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An
association between inflammation and depressive disorder.
Men
showed more signs of this association.
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The
Netherlands Study of Depression and
Anxiety (NESDA) as a Cohort Study.
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Tasneem
Kathree, One M Selohilwe, Arvin Bhana and Inge Petersen
(2014)
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To
find out what causes postnatal depression and depressive disorders in women,
and how the environment they live in effect this more, in a negative way.
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Research
Article & Ethnography Research Method
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It
concluded that post natal depression in women in Africa had many factors
surrounding it, such as; "Poverty, unwanted pregnancy and interpersonal
conflict including partner rejection and associated lack of mater- ial and
social support as well as conflicts including do- mestic violence,"
(Kathree, 2014).
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The
strength of this article was that it focused on only postnatal women, and
observed them without any interference, letting the study be natural. The
limitations were that it followed physically, on physical observation, maybe
they should have observed medically into health and what causes this after
giving birth.
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Postnatal
depression in woman associated with the environment and the way they lived
their life.
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community
health centre (CHC) in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda dis-trict in the North West
Province.
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Theresa
S. Betancourt, ScD, MA, Rochelle Frounfelker, MPH, MSSW, Tej Mishra, MPH,
Aweis Hussein, and Rita Falzarano, BA
(2015)
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To
address mental health disparities in children caused by the barriers coming
from a different culture and also the different culture it self.
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Research
Article & Participatory Action Research Method
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The
conclusion of this study was that there are many barriers due to culture,
causing health disparities such as depressive disorders in children. Also, that
mental health screening tools are to be made in order to help children like
these who live in diverse populations, and have barriers which don't allow
them to openly express themselves.
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The
strength of this article was that it allowed participants to get help from
their community from the community’s participation in helping these children.
The limitations were again the barriers themselves, did the children really
understand what was going on during this research, an dhow well did they
understand and will they be able to take control of these health disparities
if the barriers were present while this research was taking place.
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Community
involvement is essential to helping these children. The barriers are a major
cause of these health disparities.
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Somali Bantu and Bhutanese
refugees living in the Greater Boston and Springfield, Massa-chusetts, area
between 2011 and 2014.
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Xu,
F., Austin, M., Reilly, N., Hilder, L., & Sullivan, E. A.
(2012)
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To
check and further improve the current policies in place to offer medical care
to perinatal women who are going through depressive disorders.
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Research
Article & Policy Method
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The
conclusion of this study was that it "confirms the pattern of depressive
disorder hospital admissions" from past studies, concluding that the
policy currently in play is governing prenatal depression in the right way.
Also, that while prenatal depression is being taken care of, we need to also
focus on postpartum depression.
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The
strength of this article was that it focused on pregnant women in their
perinatal period and observed how medical places were giving care to them and
how that matched with the current policies. The limitations were that they
did not try anything new in order to improve the care given.
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Perinatal
women with some sort of depressive disorder. Impact on not only the mother
but immediate family also the baby.
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New
South Wales (NSW) & Midwives Data Collection (MDC)
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Maddux,
R. E., & Johansson, H.
(2014)
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To
check which treatments are right and which are wrong for individuals with
depressive disorders.
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Research
Article & Practice Method
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The
conclusion of this study was that there are specific treatments that work for
certain types of disorders and some only for one type or something like this.
There is a criteria for each type of depressive disorder.
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The
strength of this article was that it focused on only one type of depressive
disorder, for which the results mostly could be generalized. The limitations
on this article was that we do not know for sure for which depressive
disorders these can exactly be generalized providing the same results.
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DPD
depressive disorder.
Treatments
which work.
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A
patient who was treated at a University-affiliated psychiatric clinic over
approximately 12 years.
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Papan
Thaipisuttikul Pichai ittasakul Punjaporn Waleeprakhon Pattarabhorn Wisajun
sudawan Jullagate
(2014)
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To
acknowledge how common psychiatric comorbidities are in people with Major
Depressive Disorders.
|
Research
Article & Cross-Sectional Study
|
The
conclusion of this study was that “at least one-third of MDD patients has
psychiatric comorbidity.” Along with having MDD, they also had some other
kind of mental disorder, which there is a huge chance that it could all be
effecting the MDD in a negative way.
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The
strength of this article was that it did not limit off what other psychiatric
comorbidities could have a possible association with MDD, but it tested out
almost all the major depressive disorders. The limitation on this article was
that it limited to focusing on depressive disorders, whereas it could have
expanded to other health conditions effecting MDD.
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MDD,
psychiatric comorbidity, association between these
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Tertiary care psychiatric
outpatient clinic at Ramathibodi Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, between
October 2012 and January 2014.
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L.
V. Kessing, M. G. Hansen,
P.
K. Andersen, J. Angst
(2003)
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To
examine if individual tendency for recurrence can effect and increase the
risk of recurrence of a depressive disorder.
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Research
Article & Case Control
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The
conclusion of this study was that there were “significant effect of episodes”
for the disorders even after the effect was tried to be controlled towards
the tendency of recurrence.
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The
strength of this article was that the authors tried to intervene with the
tendencies one had about the recurrence of any sort of episode for these
depressive disorders. The limitation was also this, there is only so much the
authors could do to stop these tendencies in a person, in the end it is up to
the person who is going through this.
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Depressive
Disorders, Tendency for Recurrence, Control for the Tendencies
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At
the Psychiatric Hospital University of Zurich between 1959 to 1963 & then
Follow Ups for many Years.
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DANIEL
N. KLEIN, PH.D., STEWART A. SHANKMAN, PH.D., PETER M. LEWINSOHN, PH.D., AND
JOHN R. SEELEY, PH.D.
(2009)
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To
examine the escalation of sub-syndrome of depressive disorder to
fill-syndrome of depressive disorder, in adolescents.
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Research
Article & Grounded Theory (maybe)
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The
conclusion of this study is that half the participants have slowly over the
years developed full-syndrome depressive disorder from a sub-syndrome.
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The
strengths of this article was that it followed up on patients from their adolescent
life till into their 30s to see the escalation of depressive disorder, this
allowed for a very valid study. The limitation of this study was that it
didn’t show anything related to what exactly sub versus full syndrome is.
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Sub-Syndrome
Depressive Disorder, Full-Syndrome Depressive Disorder, Escalation
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Oregon
Adolescent Depression Project
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John
H. Riskind, Claudio Sica, Gioia Bottesi, Marta Ghisi, Todd B. Kashdan
(2016)
Jan
Dieris-Hirche, Laura Bottel, Martin Bielefeld, Toni Steinbüchel, Aram Kehyayan,
Barbara Dieris, Bert te Wildt
(2016)
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To
examine the link between parents and their adult offspring’s depressive
disorder.
To
examine the tendencies of internet addiction in individuals with depressive
disorders.
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Research
Article & Phenomenology Research
Research
Article & Case-Control Study
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The
conclusion of this study is that “looming cognitive style of fathers, but not
mothers” contributed significantly to depressive disorders in adult
offsprings’.
The
conclusion of this study is that there is a high association between the
amount of internet use to depressive disorder symptoms in people.
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The
strength of this article is that it only focused on biological link from
parents, rather than other biological family members. The limitations on this
study was that it kind of focused on the cognitive style of parents, rather
than other traits or characteristics that could cause the depressive disorder
in adult children.
The
strength of this article is that it limited the interactions of depressive
disorder to the internet, and also that it compared this group of people with
healthy individuals as a control. The limitation in this study was that it
did to say what type of internet usage has caused this, it would have been
significant in knowing what specifically causes this.
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Looming
Cognitive Style, Parents (Fathers and Mothers), Depressive Disorder in Adult
Children
Cohort
Study, Healthy Individuals, Internet Use Addiction with Depressive Disorders
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Two
Different Italian Universities
Department
of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School,
Germany
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Synthesis
Matrix/Critical Appraisal
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