Social Phobia in an Italian: Do Italian studies show lower frequencies than community surveys conducted in other European countries?

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Carta, Mauro Giovanni ^a   Hardoy, Maria Carolina ^b   Cadeddu, Mariangela ^a   Carpiniello, Bernardo ^a   Dell'Osso, Liliana ^b   Reda, Mario Antonio ^c   Wittchen, Hans Ulrich ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSTHYMIA; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RURAL AREA; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIOPATHY; CULTURAL FACTOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHOBIA;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; HUMANS; ITALY; PHOBIC DISORDERS;

EID: 12944271842     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-4-31     Document Type: Article

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