Does psychological distress vary between younger and older adults in health and disease?

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-128

  Goulia, Panagiota ^a   Papadimitriou, Ilias ^a   Machado, Myrela O ^b   Mantas, Christos ^a   Pappa, Chrisavgi ^a   Tsianos, Epameinondas ^a   Pavlidis, Nicholas ^a   Drosos, Alexandros A ^c   Carvalho, André F ^b   Hyphantis, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Elderly; Hospital specialty clinics; Long term medical illness; Somatization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITAL; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOMATIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84856214192     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: 18791360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2011.11.011     Document Type: Article

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