Prevalence estimates of depression in elderly community-dwelling African Americans in Indianapolis and Yoruba in Ibadan, Nigeria

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 679-689

  Baiyewu, Olusegun ^a   Smith Gamble, Valerie ^b   Lane, Kathleen A ^b   Gureje, Oye ^a   Gao, Sujuan ^b   Ogunniyi, Adesola ^a   Unverzagt, Frederick W ^b   Hall, Kathleen S ^b   Hendrie, Hugh C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGING RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Cross cultural; Late life depression; Yoruba

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; SENESCENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRATIFICATION; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANA; MALE; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34447129646     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610207005480     Document Type: Article

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