Cited by 155Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesMental Health Treatment and AccessMental Health Research Topics

Psychiatric history and subthreshold symptoms as predictors of the occurrence of depressive or anxiety disorder within 2 years

Open access
Karsten, Julie, Hartman, Catharina A., Smit, Johannes H., Zitman, Frans G., Beekman, Aartjan T. F., Cuijpers, Pim, van der Does, A. J. Willem, Ormel, Johan +2 more·2011·British Journal of Psychiatry

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Past episodes of depressive or anxiety disorders and subthreshold symptoms have both been reported to predict the occurrence of depressive or anxiety disorders. It is unclear to what extent the two factors interact or predict these disorders independently. AIMS: To examine the extent to which history, subthreshold symptoms and their combination predict the occurrence of depressive (major depressive disorder, dysthymia) or anxiety disorders (social phobia, panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalised anxiety disorder) over a 2-year period. METHOD: This was a prospective cohort study with 1167 participants: the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety. Anxiety and depressive disorders were determined with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview, subthreshold symptoms were determined with the Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self Report and the Beck Anxiety Inventory. RESULTS: Occurrence of depressive disorder was best predicted by a combination of a history of depression and subthreshold symptoms, followed by either one alone. Occurrence of anxiety disorder was best predicted by both a combination of a history of anxiety disorder and subthreshold symptoms and a combination of a history of depression and subthreshold symptoms, followed by any subthreshold symptoms or a history of any disorder alone. CONCLUSIONS: A history and subthreshold symptoms independently predicted the subsequent occurrence of depressive or anxiety disorder. Together these two characteristics provide reasonable discriminative value. Whereas anxiety predicted the occurrence of an anxiety disorder only, depression predicted the occurrence of both depressive and anxiety disorders.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.080572

Cites

41 of 41 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

1 of the 42 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. Merikangas KR, Zhang H, Avenevoli S, Acharyya S, Neuenschwander M, Angst J. Longitudinal trajectories of depression and anxiety in a prospective community study. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2003; 60: 993-1000.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Karsten, J., Hartman, C. A., Smit, J. H., Zitman, F. G., Beekman, A. T. F., Cuijpers, P., van der Does, A. J. W., Ormel, J., Nolen, W. A., & Penninx, B. W. J. H.
Affiliations
  • University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
  • Amsterdam Neuroscience (NL)
  • Leiden University Medical Center (NL)
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
Corresponding author
Karsten, Julie
Venue
British Journal of Psychiatry
Published
2011-03
Volume
198
Issue
3
Pages
206-212
ISSN
  • 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
  • 1472-1465
OpenAlex
W2101514363
Cited by
155
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 6
FWCI
13.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Pure Amsterdam UMC (publishedVersion)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (publishedVersion)
  • Amsterdam UMC (VU Amsterdam) - Institutional Repository (submittedVersion)
  • VU Research Portal (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
  • Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • Universiteit Leiden (10‐000‐1002)
  • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (10‐000‐1002)
  • ZonMw (10‐000‐1002)
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • GGZ inGeest
  • Rivierduinen
  • GGZ Friesland
  • GGZ Drenthe
  • Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek van de Gezondheidszorg (10-000-1002)
  • Trimbos-instituut
  • Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum
  • Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
Keywords
subthreshold symptoms, history of depression, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, major depressive disorder, dysthymia, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, risk prediction, prospective cohort, NESDA
MeSH terms
Adult, Anxiety Disorders, Depressive Disorder, Epidemiologic Methods, Female, Humans, Interview, Psychological, Male, Netherlands, Prognosis, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Disease Progression

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review