A community study on emotional distress among Arab and Jewish Israelis over the age of 60

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 64-76

  Shemesh, Annarosa Anat ^a   Kohn, Robert ^b   Blumstein, Tzvia ^c   Geraisy, Nabil ^a   Novikov, Ilya ^c   Levav, Itzhak ^a,d  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^d NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arabs; Community survey; Elderly; Emotional distress; Epidemiology; Israel; Jews

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARAB; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CALCULATION; CHRISTIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; JEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RELIGIOUS GROUP; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARABS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 31344447169     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.1426     Document Type: Article

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