Effect of religiosity/spirituality and sense of coherence on depression within a rural population in Greece: The Spili III project

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Anyfantakis, Dimitrios ^a   Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K ^a   Linardakis, Manolis ^a   Shea, Sue ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes ^b   Lionis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Depression; Religious; Sense of coherence; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANHEDONIA; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRISTIAN; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MORBIDITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; ROYAL FREE INTERVIEW FOR SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS SCALE; RURAL POPULATION; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SENSE OF COHERENCE SCALE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RURAL POPULATION; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SPIRITUALITY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84937776485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-015-0561-3     Document Type: Article

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