Major depressive disorder in Taiwan defined by the Chinese Diagnostic Interview Schedule

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 184, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 497-502

  Hwu, Hai Gwo ^a   Chang, I Hao ^b   Yeh, Eng Kung ^a   Chang, Ching Jui ^a   Yeh, Ling Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Psychiatry   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CHINA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029796571     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199608000-00007     Document Type: Article

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