Psychotic symptoms in first‐episode and drug naïve patients with major depressive disorder: Prevalence and related clinical factors

Abstract

Our results suggest that psychotic symptoms are common in MDD patients at their first episode. The strong association between psychotic MDD and anxiety or suicide attempts demonstrates the importance of reducing anxiety symptoms in the treatment of psychotic MDD patients as well as the necessity to regularly assess suicide risk in MDD patients with psychotic symptoms to better prevent suicidal behavior.