Original paper adjustment disorders: Prevalence in a representative nationwide survey in germanyoriginal paper

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1745-1752

  Maercker, Andreas ^a   Forstmeier, Simon ^a   Pielmaier, Laura ^a   Spangenberg, Lena ^b   Brähler, Elmar ^b   Glaesmer, Heide ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjustment disorders; Nationwide study; Stress response syndromes; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867989219     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-012-0493-x     Document Type: Review

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