Worry content across the lifespan: An analysis of 16- to 74-year-old participants in the British National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity 2000

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1625-1633

  Lindesay, James ^a,d   Baillon, Sarah ^a   Brugha, Traolach ^a   Michael, Dennis ^a   Stewart, Robert ^b   Araya, Ricardo ^c   Meltzer, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTIONALITY; EMPLOYMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33750048993     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291706008439     Document Type: Article

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