The prevalence and correlates of psychiatric comorbidity in individuals with complicated grief

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 395-399

  Simon, Naomi M ^a   Shear, Katherine M ^b   Thompson, Elizabeth H ^a   Zalta, Alyson K ^a   Perlman, Carol ^a   Reynolds, Charles F ^c   Frank, Ellen ^c   Melhem, Nadine M ^c   Silowash, Russell ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATED GRIEF; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PANIC DISORDER; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 34547838237     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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