Religious involvement and depressive symptoms in primary care elders

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1807-1815

  King, D A ^a,b   Lyness, J M ^a   Duberstein, P R ^a   He, H ^a   Tu, X M ^a   Seaburn, D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RELIGION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOMETRICS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 36048988434     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291707000591     Document Type: Article

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