Depressive symptoms in older male Italian immigrants in Australia: The concord health and ageing in men project

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 158-162

  Stanaway, Fiona F ^a   Cumming, Robert G ^a   Naganathan, Vasi ^b   Blyth, Fiona M ^b   Creasey, Helen M ^b   Waite, Louise M ^b   Handelsman, David J ^b   Seibel, Markus J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 77952355885     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03456.x     Document Type: Article

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