Diagnostic overlap of depressive, anxiety, stress and somatoform disorders in primary care

Asia-Pacific Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bener, Abdulbari ^a,b,c   Al Kazaz, Mohammed ^c   Ftouni, Darine ^c   Al Harthy, Munjid ^c   Dafeeah, Elnour E ^d  

^a HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

^d HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Arab population; Depression; Somatization; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PERCEIVED STRESS SCALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QATAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOMATIZATION; STOMACH PAIN; STRESS;

ANXIETY; ARAB POPULATION; DEPRESSION; SOMATIZATION; STRESS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ARABS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QATAR; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84874333101     PISSN: 17585864     EISSN: 17585872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-5872.2012.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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