Patterns of depression in cancer patients: An indirect test of gender-specific vulnerabilities to depression

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 767-774

  Miller, Sara ^a   Lo, Christopher ^a   Gagliese, Lucia ^b   Hales, Sarah ^a   Rydall, Anne ^a   Zimmermann, Camilla ^a   Li, Madeline ^a   Rodin, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Depression; Gender; Life events; Men; Stress; Women

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; CANADA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 80051795615     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0246-7     Document Type: Article

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