Prevalence of depressive symptoms in university students from Germany, Denmark, Poland and Bulgaria

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-112

  Mikolajczyk, Rafael T ^a   Maxwell, Annette E ^b   El Ansari, Walid ^c   Naydenova, Vihra ^a   Stock, Christiane ^d   Ilieva, Snezhana ^e   Dudziak, Urszula ^f   Nagyova, Iveta ^g  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e Faculty of Philosophy   (Bulgaria)

^f JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^g P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Beck Depression Inventory (BDI); Depressive symptoms; International differences; Students

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BULGARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; DEPRESSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLAND; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; EUROPE; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS;

EID: 38649111050     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0282-0     Document Type: Article

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