The Epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)

Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 289, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 3095-3105

  Kessler, Ronald C ^a   Berglund, Patricia ^b   Demler, Olga ^a   Jin, Robert ^a   Koretz, Doreen ^c   Merikangas, Kathleen R ^c   Rush, A John ^d   Walters, Ellen E ^a   Wang, Philip S ^a,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; SHEEHAN DISABILITY SCALE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037831023     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.289.23.3095     Document Type: Review

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