Sex difference in the rates and co-occurring conditions of psychiatric symptoms in incoming college students in Taiwan

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-207

  Chien, Yi Ling ^a   Gau, Susan Shur Fen ^a,b   Gadow, Kenneth D ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANOREXIA; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; BULIMIA; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPULSION; CONDUCT DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INSOMNIA; INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER; KLEPTOMANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NARCOLEPSY; NIGHTMARE; OBSESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PYROMANIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOM; TAIWAN; TIC; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ADOLESCENT; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; TAIWAN; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551576736     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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