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Is nonverbal behavior in patients and interviewers relevant to the assessment of depression and its recovery? A study with Dutch and Brazilian patients

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Author(s):
Fiquer, Juliana Teixeira ; Moreno, Ricardo Alberto ; Canales, Janette Z. ; Cavalcanti, Andre ; Gorenstein, Clarice
Total Authors: 5
Document type: Journal article
Source: PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH; v. 250, p. 59-64, APR 2017.
Web of Science Citations: 1
Abstract

Nonverbal behaviors exhibited by patients with depression in their interactions with others may reflect social maladjustment and depression maintenance. Investigations of associations between unipolar depression and both patients' and interviewers' behaviors have been scarce and restricted to European samples. This study examined whether nonverbal behavior in patients and their interviewers is associated with depression severity and recovery. Cultural differences were explored. Seventy-eight depressed outpatients (28 Brazilians, 50 Dutch) were evaluated before and after 8-week pharmacological treatment. Patients were videotaped during the Hamilton Depression Scale interview before treatment, and the Brazilians were also videotaped after treatment. Nonverbal behaviors (patients' speaking effort and interviewers' encouragement) were analyzed using a two factor ethogram. Results revealed that speaking effort was associated with encouragement and both are not influenced by baseline depression severity. However, from before to after treatment, whereas encouragement remained unchanged, speaking effort increased among unrecovered patients. Speaking effort was associated with patients' culture: Brazilians exhibited higher speaking effort than Dutch. These findings highlight that whereas the supportive nonverbal behavior of the interviewer may be stable, the set of nonverbal behaviors composed by head movements, eye contact and gestures displayed by the patients during their speaking in clinical interviews reflects depression persistence after treatment. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 11/51732-6 - Non-verbal expressiveness in depression: discrimination between patients and healthy controls, clinical subgroups identification and prognostic and clinical improvement assessments through nonverbal behavioral indicators
Grantee:Juliana Teixeira Fiquer
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
FAPESP's process: 12/50879-6 - Indicators of expressiveness and emotional processing in depression
Grantee:Clarice Gorenstein
Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants