Frequency of contact with community based psychiatric services and the lunar cycle: A 10 year case-register study

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 323-326

  Amaddeo, F ^a   Bisoffi, G ^a   Micciolo, R ^b   Piccinelli, M ^a   Tansella, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSULTATION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MOON; PERIODICITY; REGISTER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; ITALY; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOON; PERIODICITY; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030874111     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00805436     Document Type: Article

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