Onset and clinical course of schizophrenia in Butajira-Ethiopia - A community-based study

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 625-631

  Kebede, D ^a   Alem, A ^a   Shibre, T ^a   Negash, A ^a   Fekadu, A ^a   Fekadu, D ^a   Deyassa, N ^a   Jacobsson, L ^b   Kullgren, Gunnar ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clinical course; Gender differences; Schizophrenia; Tranditional society; Treatment na ve

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RURAL HEALTH; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 0345257090     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-003-0678-4     Document Type: Article

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