Psychiatric morbidity among the elderly in a primary care setting-report from a survey in Sao Paulo, Brazil

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 728-736

  Almeida, Osvaldo P ^a,c   Forlenza, Orestes V ^b   Costa Lima, Nereida K ^b   Bigliani, Valéria ^b   Arcuri, Silvia M ^b   Gentile, Mariângela ^b   Faria, Mara M ^b   Lourenço, Cibele C ^b   Machado De Oliveira, Dilma A ^b  

^a Departamento de Psiquiatria   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Universidade de São Paulo ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; AMTS; Anxiety; Brazil; CAGE; Dementia; Depression; Elderly; Old age; Paranoid symptoms; Primary care; Sao Paulo; SRQ 20

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE; READING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAZIL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0030858379     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1166(199707)12:7<728::AID-GPS624>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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