The role of comorbidity in the detection of psychiatric disorders with checklists for mental and physical symptoms in primary care

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 78-85

  Waal, Margot W M ^a   Arnold, Ingrid A ^a   Spinhoven, Philip ^a,b   Eekhof, Just A H ^a   Assendelft, Willem J J ^a   van Hemert, Albert M ^a,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c PARNASSIA PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Comorbidity; Depressive disorders; Questionnaires; Sensitivity and specificity; Somatoform disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; ROC CURVE; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 59349099353     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0410-5     Document Type: Article

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