Religious involvement and depression in older Dutch citizens

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 284-291

  Braam, A W ^a   Beekman, A T F ^a   Van Tilburg, T G ^a   Deeg, D J H ^a   Van Tilburg, W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOM;

AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0030790875     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00789041     Document Type: Article

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