Did narrowing the major depression bereavement exclusion from DSM-III-R to DSM-IV increase validity?: Evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 66-73

  Wakefield, Jerome C ^a,b,c   Schmitz, Mark F ^c,d   Baer, Judith C ^c,e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Depression; Diagnosis; DSM; Grief; Harmful dysfunction; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; BEREAVEMENT RELATED DEPRESSIVE EPISODE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE DURATION; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BEREAVEMENT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951639218     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31820840c5     Document Type: Article

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