Kessler Psychological Distress Scale: Normative data from the 2007 Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 308-316

  Slade, Tim ^a   Grove, Rachel ^a   Burgess, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Kessler Psychological Distress Scale; mental disorder; norms

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KESSLER PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD DISORDER; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SEX RATIO; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79952809673     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048674.2010.543653     Document Type: Article

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