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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1975) 127: 219-221. doi: 10.1192/bjp.127.3.219
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Premenstrual Affective Syndrome and Affective Disorder

RICHARD D. WETZEL Ph.D.1, THEODORE REICH M.D.2, JAMES N. McCLURE JR. M.D.2, and JEFFREY A. WALD 3

1 Instructor in Medical Psychology in Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4940 Audubon, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110, U.S.A.
2 Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine
3 Stanford University

Sixty-four per cent of 874 freshmen and sophomore women sent questionnaires about premenstrual and menstrual symptoms returned them. They differed from those not returning the questionnaires only in year of school. As predicted, women reporting premenstrual affective symptoms were more likely than those who did not report them to seek psychiatric care at the Student Health Service and to be diagnosed as affective disorder at the service.

Submitted on February 10, 1975




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