Gender-specific associations between leisure-time physical activity and symptoms of anxiety: the HUNT study

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 419-427

  Brunes, Audun ^a   Gudmundsdottir, Sigridur Lara ^b   Augestad, Liv Berit ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Epidemiology; Physical activity; Prospective study design

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEISURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939873364     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-014-0915-z     Document Type: Article

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