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The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Depression, Suicidal Behavior and Somatic Disorders (2024) · doi

  Conclusion: Further study of the issues of diagnosis, clinical-psychopathological and clinical-psychological features of depression and suicidal behavior, as well as therapy and evaluation of the effectiveness of preventive programs for the prevention of depressive and suicidal states associated with somatic diseases is required.

  Keywords: clinical suicidal conclusion further issues diagnosis psychopathological psychological features depression behavior well therapy evaluation effectiveness
• Depression and somatic symptoms in Japanese and American college students: Negative mood regulation expectancies as a personality correlate (2017) · doi

  This study clarified contradictory findings regarding whether depression and somatic symptoms are associated more strongly with each other in non-Western countries than in Western countries, by examining the relationships of the two variables with negative mood regulation expectancies (NMRE).

  Keywords: western countries clarified contradictory regarding whether depression somatic symptoms associated strongly examining relationships variables negative
• Depression as Measured by the Beck Depression Inventory-II Among Injecting Drug Users (2006) · doi

  Somatic symptoms are endorsed more strongly than affective or cognitive symptoms of depression, suggesting a possible, but yet poorly defined, relationship between depressive symptomatology and drug use that centers on shared somatic symptomatology.

  Keywords: somatic symptoms symptomatology endorsed strongly affective cognitive depression suggesting possible poorly defined relationship depressive drug