The association of psychiatric diagnosis with weather conditions in a large urban homeless sample

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 206-210

  North, C S ^a   Pollio, D E ^b   Thompson, S J ^b   Spitznagel, E L ^b   Smith, E M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ADULT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF REPORT; URBAN POPULATION; WEATHER;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; URBAN POPULATION; WEATHER;

EID: 0031979850     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050044     Document Type: Article

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