Gender differences in depressive symptoms among Spanish elderly

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 195-205

  Zunzunegui, M V ^a   Beland F ^b   Llacer A ^c   Leon V ^a  

^a ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPAIN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPAIN;

EID: 2642645385     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050043     Document Type: Article

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