Are there sex differences in the reliability of a lifetime history of major depression and its predictors?

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 617-625

  Kendler, K S ^a,b   Gardner, C O ^a   Prescott, C A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Box 980126 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; INTERVIEW; LIFESPAN; MALE; MOOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RECALL; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RISK; SAMPLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMPTOM; TWINS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0035025136     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291701003798     Document Type: Article

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