Detection of major depression in Ugandan primary health care settings using simple questions from a subjective well-being (SWB) subscale

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-69

  Muhwezi, Wilson Winstons ^a   Ågren, Hans ^b   Musisi, Seggane ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Depression; Diagnosis; Primary health centre; Screening; Subjective well being; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE SATISFACTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RATING SCALE; UGANDA; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UGANDA;

EID: 34247498609     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-006-0132-5     Document Type: Article

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