Extending the bereavement exclusion for major depression to other losses: Evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 433-440

  Wakefield, Jerome C ^a   Schmitz, Mark F ^b   First, Michael B ^c,d   Horwitz, Allan V ^e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MELANCHOLIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BEREAVEMENT; COMORBIDITY; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34147134660     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.64.4.433     Document Type: Article

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