Time to Recovery, Chronicity, and Levels of Psychopathology in Major Depression: A 5-Year Prospective Follow-up of 431 Subjects

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 1992, Pages 809-816

  Keller, Martin B ^a,b   Lavori, Philip W ^a,b   Mueller, Timothy I ^a,b   Endicott, Jean ^a,c   Coryell, William ^a,d   Hirschfeld, Robert M A ^a,e   Shea, Tracie ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; LITHIUM CARBONATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONICITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTHYMIA; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0026793525     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1992.01820100053010     Document Type: Article

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