Lifetime and twelve-month prevalence rates of major depressive episodes and dysthymia among Chinese Americans in Los Angeles

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 155, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1407-1414

  Takeuchi, David T ^a,b   Chung, Rita Chi Ying ^a   Lin, Keh Ming ^a   Shen, Haikang ^a   Kurasaki, Karen ^a   Chun, Chi Ah ^a   Sue, Stanley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; DEPRESSION; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031686198     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.155.10.1407     Document Type: Article

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