Associations of hair cortisol concentration with self-reported measures of stress and mental health-related factors in a pooled database of diverse community samples

Stress

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 334-342

  Wells, Samantha ^a,b,c   Tremblay, Paul F ^b   Flynn, Andrea ^a   Russell, Evan ^b   Kennedy, James ^a,d   Rehm, Jürgen ^a,c   Van Uum, Stan ^e   Koren, Gideon ^b,e,f   Graham, Kathryn ^a,b,c,g  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^g CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggression; Community samples; Cortisol; Depression; Disability; Hair; Subjective stress; Substance use

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; HAIR DYE; HYDROCORTISONE; ILLICIT DRUG; PRESCRIPTION DRUG; TRANQUILIZER;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANNABIS SMOKING; CHRONIC STRESS; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; DEPRESSION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HAIR LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; REFERENCE DATABASE; SELF REPORT; SUBSTANCE USE; TOBACCO USE; AGED; CHEMISTRY; DEMOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HAIR; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84903721978     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2014.930432     Document Type: Article

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