Lifetime prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity and demographic correlates of "hikikomori" in a community population in Japan

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-74

  Koyama, Asuka ^a   Miyake, Yuko ^a   Kawakami, Norito ^b   Tsuchiya, Masao ^b,c   Tachimori, Hisateru ^a   Takeshima, Tadashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Japan; Psychopathology; Social withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76549099844     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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