Burden of depressive symptoms in South African public healthcare patients with established rheumatoid arthritis: A case-control study

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 506-512

  Solomon, A ^a   Christian, B F ^a   Woodiwiss, A J ^b   Norton, G R ^b   Dessein, Patrick H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Depressive symptoms; Developing populations; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ETHNICITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 80052079503     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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