Intrusive thoughts and avoidance behaviors are associated with sleep disturbances in bereavement-related depression

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 106-112

  Hall, Martica ^a   Buysse, Daniel J ^a   Dew, Mary Amanda ^a   Prigerson, Holly G ^b   Kupfer, David J ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Depression; IES; Sleep; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEREAVEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DISORDER; THINKING;

AGED; BEREAVEMENT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 0031416797     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1997)6:3<106::AID-DA3>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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