A prospective study of outcome and predictors of subclinical and clinical depression in an older biracial sample of psychiatric outpatients

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 204-211

  Cohen, Carl I ^a   Goh, Kah Hong ^a   Gustave, Mario ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; African Caribbeans; Aging; Anxiety; Depression; Elderly; Longitudinal study; Outpatient clinic; Subsyndromal depression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC CARE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; NATURALISTIC INQUIRY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; REMISSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DAY CARE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 74449091181     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2009.05.021     Document Type: Article

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