The Christchurch prisons psychiatric epidemiology study: Methodology and prevalence rates for psychiatric disorders

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 131-143

  Brinded, Philip M J ^a   Stevens, Isobel ^a   Mulder, Roger T ^a   Fairley, Nigel ^b   Malcolm, Fiona ^b   Wells, J Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; PRISON;

EID: 0032800878     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.301     Document Type: Article

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