Childhood adversity and adult psychiatric disorder in the US National Comorbidity Survey

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1101-1119

  Kessler, R C ^a   Davis, C G ^b   Kendler, K S ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTING OUT; ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISASTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; RAPE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL ABUSE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CAUSALITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD REARING; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030865364     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291797005588     Document Type: Article

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