The prevalence of major depression is not changing

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-34

  Patten, Scott B ^a,b   Williams, Jeanne V A ^a   Lavorato, Dina H ^a   Fiest, Kirsten M ^a   Bulloch, Andrew G M ^a,b   Wang, Jian Li ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross sectional studies; Epidemiologic studies; Major depression; Major depressive episode; Meta regression; Time trends

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; TREND STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

CANADA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84920941213     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: 14970015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/070674371506000107     Document Type: Article

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