Content of Worry in the Community: What Do People With Generalized Anxiety Disorder or Other Disorders Worry About?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 191, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 688-691

  Becker, Eni Sabine ^a,c   Goodwin, Renee ^b   Hölting, Christoph ^a   Hoyer, Jürgen ^a   Margraf, Jürgen ^d  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SELF CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0142053166     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000092198.20420.fc     Document Type: Article

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