Patterns of depression in Spanish- and English-speaking patients with Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-55

  Ownby, Raymond L ^a,b   Acevedo, Amarilis ^a   Harwood, Dylan G ^a   Barker, Warren W ^a   Duara, Ranjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Depression; Latent class analysis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39149127533     PISSN: 08919887     EISSN: 15525708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891988707311564     Document Type: Article

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