Psychiatric morbidity in outpatients of gynecological oncology clinic in a tertiary care hospital

Indian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 327-332

  Mendonsa, Rohan Dilip ^a   Appaya, Prakash ^b  

^a YENEPOYA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Anxiety; depression; gynecological cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; MORBIDITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PANIC; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 78650938011     PISSN: 00195545     EISSN: 19983794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5545.74307     Document Type: Article

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