Features associated with the non-participation and drop out by socially-at-risk children and adolescents in mental-health epidemiological studies

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 251-258

  Granero Pérez, Rosario ^a   Ezpeleta, Lourdes ^a   Domenech, José María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drop out; Epidemiology; Longitudinal prospective design; Mental health; Non participation; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINORITY GROUP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADOLESCENT; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CHILD; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 34247504205     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-006-0155-y     Document Type: Article

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