Rethinking the duration requirement for generalized anxiety disorder: Evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1073-1082

  Kessler, Ronald C ^a   Brandenburg, Nancy ^b   Lane, Michael ^a   Roy Byrne, Peter ^c   Stang, Paul D ^d   Stein, Dan J ^e   Wittchen, Hans Ulrich ^f  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOOD DISORDER; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 22544452738     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291705004538     Document Type: Article

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