Relationship between late-life depression and life stressors: Large-scale cross-sectional study of a representative sample of the Japanese general population

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 426-434

  Kaji, Tatsuhiko ^a,c   Mishima, Kazuo ^a   Kitamura, Shingo ^a   Enomoto, Minori ^a   Nagase, Yukihiro ^a,c   Li, Lan ^a   Kaneita, Yoshitaka ^b   Ohida, Takashi ^b   Nishikawa, Toru ^c   Uchiyama, Makoto ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Bureau of Public Health   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

affective disorder; epidemiology; old age psychiatry; public health; stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGE; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955067585     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2010.02097.x     Document Type: Article

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