Task: Question Generation
Input (English): This study was undertaken to assess the presence and degree of anxiety and depression in a group of UK patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (1 degrees SS).", 'Cross-sectional.', 'Department of Oral Medicine, Liverpool University Dental Hospital.', 'Eighty adult patients; 40 diagnosed with 1 degrees SS according to the revised European Criteria and 40 age/gender-matched controls with no history of chronic illness.', 'Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), a self-administered questionnaire designed to evaluate the presence and degree of anxiety and depression in a clinical setting.', 'Age, gender, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).', "Forty patients with 1degrees SS and 40/age/gender-matched controls completed the HADS. Scores for anxiety in both the 1 degrees SS and control groups showed no statistically significant difference. Patients with 1 degrees SS had statistically significant higher, mean HADS scores for depression than the controls. There was an increased prevalence of 'definite' clinical depression in the 1 degrees SS group.
Output (English): Are uK patients with primary Sjögren 's syndrome at increased risk from clinical depression?