Psychiatric morbidity among sentenced prisoners: Prevalence study in Iran

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 188, Issue FEB., 2006, Pages 159-164

  Assadi, Seyed Mohammad ^a,d   Noroozian, Maryam ^a   Pakravannejad, Mahdi ^b   Yahyazadeh, Omid ^b   Aghayan, Shahrokh ^b   Shariat, Seyed Vahid ^b   Fazel, Seena ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; OPIATE ADDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRISONER; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PRISONERS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 31644440873     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.188.2.159     Document Type: Article

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