TY  - JOUR
AB  - Background: Depression is supposed to be associated with an unhealthy lifestyle including poor diet. The objective of this study was to investigate differences in diet quality between patients with a clinical diagnosis of depression and population-based controls. Additionally, we aimed to examine effects of specific depression characteristics on diet by analyzing if diet quality varies between patients with distinct depression subtypes, and if depression severity is associated with diet quality. Methods: The study included 1660 participants from the BiDirect Study (n = 840 patients with depression, n = 820 population-based controls). The psychiatric assessment was based on clinical interviews and a combination of depression scales in order to provide the classification of depression subtypes and severity. Diet quality scores, reflecting the adherence to a healthy dietary pattern, were calculated on the basis of an 18-item food frequency questionnaire. Using analysis of covariance, we calculated adjusted means of diet quality scores and tested differences between groups (adjusted for socio-demographic, lifestyle-, and health-related factors). Results: We found no differences in diet quality between controls and patients with depression if depression was considered as one entity. However, we did find differences between patients with distinct subtypes of depression. Patients with melancholic depression reported the highest diet quality scores, whereas patients with atypical depression reported the lowest scores. Depression severity was not associated with diet quality. Conclusions: Previous literature has commonly treated depression as a homogeneous entity. However, subtypes of depression may be associated with diet quality in different ways. Further studies are needed to enlighten the diet-depression relationship and the role of distinct depression subtypes.
AU  - Rahe, Corinna
AU  - Baune, Bernhard Th.
AU  - Baune, Bernhard Theodor
AU  - Unrath, Michael
AU  - Unrath, Michael Wolfgang
AU  - Arolt, Volker
AU  - Arolt, V.
AU  - Wellmann, Jürgen
AU  - Wersching, Heike
AU  - Wersching, Heike Brunhild
AU  - Berger, Klaus
DA  - 2015-03-04
DO  - doi:10.1186/s12888-015-0426-9
KW  - Depression
KW  - Depression subtypes
KW  - Depression severity
KW  - Nutrition
KW  - Diet
KW  - Diet quality
KW  - Lifestyle
LA  - eng
N1  - BMC Psychiatry 15 (2015) 38, 1-9
N1  - Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2014/2015 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
PY  - 2015-03-04
SN  - 1471-244X
TI  - Associations between depression subtypes depression severity and diet quality: cross-sectional findings from the BiDirect Study
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-00329452900
Y2  - 2024-11-22T01:11:46
ER  -