Recruitment methods for intervention research in bereavement-related depression: Five years' experience

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-74

  Schlernitzauer, Maryann ^a   Bierhals, Andrew J ^a   Geary, Matthew D ^a   Prigerson, Holly G ^a   Stack, Jacqueline A ^a   Miller, Mark D ^a   Pasternak, Rona E ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 0031985573     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019442-199802000-00009     Document Type: Article

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