Non-specific symptoms as clues to changes in emotional well-being

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Matalon, Andre ^a,b   Kotliroff, Andy ^a   Blumberg, Gari ^a,c   Yaphe, John ^d   Kitai, Eliezer ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Leumit Health Care Services   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

anxiety; depression; non specific symptoms; somatic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960657126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-77     Document Type: Article

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