Fertility and marital rates in first-onset schizophrenia

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 617-621

  Hutchinson, G ^a   Bhugra, D ^a   Mallett, R ^a   Burnett, R ^a   Corridan, B ^a   Leff, J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY;

EID: 0033375333     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050183     Document Type: Article

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