Improving accuracy of major depression age-of-onset reports in the US national comorbidity survey

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-48

  Knäuper, Bärbel ^a,b   Cannell, Charles F ^c,d   Schwarz, Norbert ^a,b   Bruce, Martha L ^c,d   Kessler, Ronald C ^a,b,c,d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Age of onset; Autobiographical memory; Diagnostic interview; Epidemiology surveys; Major depression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002121819     PISSN: 10498931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpr.55     Document Type: Article

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