Are higher rates of depression in women accounted for by differential symptom reporting?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 126-132

  Bogner, Hillary R ^a   Gallo, Joseph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Gender differences; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MARRIAGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALTIMORE; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 2142768318     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-004-0714-z     Document Type: Article

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