Examining clinically relevant levels of depressive symptoms in mothers following a diagnosis of epilepsy in their children: A prospective analysis

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1419-1428

  Ferro, Mark Anthony ^a   Speechley, Kathy Nixon ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Depressive symptoms; Epilepsy; Longitudinal analysis; Mothers; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEPRESSION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; CANADA; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEPRESSION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHERS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866743900     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-011-0447-8     Document Type: Article

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