Selection effects in psychiatric epidemiology: A 14-year prospective study of the Hopkins Symptom Check List-25 as a predictor of mortality in the Norwegian general population

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 881-886

  Nygård, Jan F ^a,b   Klungsøyr, Ole ^a   Sandanger, Inger ^c,d   Svensson, Elisabeth ^a,e  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d Norwegian Institute of Public Health ^*  (Norway)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Mental health; Mortality; Psychiatry; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOPKIN SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 25; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NORWAY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SAMPLING ERROR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 70349262533     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0010-z     Document Type: Article

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