Mental distress predicts divorce over 16 years: The HUNT study Health behavior, health promotion and society

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Idstad, Mariann ^a   Torvik, Fartein Ask ^a   Borren, Ingrid ^a   Rognmo, Kamilla ^a   Røysamb, Espen ^a,b   Tambs, Kristian ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; DIVORCE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84927631133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1662-0     Document Type: Article

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