Elevated rates of psychosis among treatment-seeking Hispanic patients with major depression

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 66-69

  Posternak, Michael A ^a,b   Zimmerman, Mark ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bayside Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Hispanic; Major depression; Outpatient; Psychosis; Race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PORTUGAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; PUERTO RICO; RHODE ISLAND; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 11844249411     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000149222.02563.be     Document Type: Article

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