When do older adults seek primary care services for depression?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 191, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 619-622

  Corrigan, Patrick W ^a   Swantek, Sandra ^b   Watson, Amy C ^a   Kleinlein, Petra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; HEALTH SERVICE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0141428986     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000087190.09305.b6     Document Type: Article

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