Psychosocial and biological aspects of acute brief psychoses in three developing country sites

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 177-193

  Collins, Pamela Y ^a,d   Wig, Narenda N ^b   Day, Richard ^c   Varma, Vijoy K ^b   Malhotra, Savita ^b   Misra, Arun K ^b   Schanzer, Bella ^a   Susser, Ezra ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Div Epidemiol and Comm Psychiat   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDIA; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NIGERIA; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOSIS; RISK;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NIGERIA; ODDS RATIO; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030229950     PISSN: 00332720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02238950     Document Type: Article

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