The prevalence of headache and associated psychosocial factors in an urban biracial sample of older adults

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 329-342

  Cohen, Carl ^a   Henry, Katherine ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; African Caribbeans; age; epidemiology; headache; psychiatric disorders; race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BOTHERSOMENESS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIGION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80155197732     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PM.41.4.c     Document Type: Article

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