Depressive symptoms and suicide in 56,000 older Chinese: A Hong Kong cohort study

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 505-514

  Sun, Wen Jie ^a   Xu, Lin ^a   Chan, Wai Man ^b   Lam, Tai Hing ^a   Schooling, C Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Depressive symptoms; Geriatric Depression Scale; Suicide

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863725847     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-011-0362-z     Document Type: Article

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