Multiple exposure to life events and clinical psychopathology in adults with intellectual disability

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-28

  Tsakanikos, Elias ^a   Bouras, Nick ^a   Costello, Helen ^a   Holt, Geraldine ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intellectual disability mental retardation; Life events; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LIFE EVENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED KINGDOM; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONDON; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 34247518163     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-006-0128-1     Document Type: Article

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