• We compared depressive symptomatology and its sociocultural context across a Peruvian
sample of 93 and a US sample of 64 adult depressive patients. The design involved the
interview and evaluation of both groups by a bilingual investigator using Spanish-and
English-language versions of the same assessment instruments. A basic commonality of
core depressive symptoms and signs was found across samples, which also had similar
levels of overall depressive severity. However, more complaints and higher scores on …