Associations between negative and positive life events and the course of depression: A detailed repeated-assessments study

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 175-180

  Blonski, Simon C ^a   Conradi, Henk Jan ^b   Oldehinkel, Albertina J ^b   Bos, Elisabeth Henriette ^a   De Jonge, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Course; Depression; Negative life events; Positive life events

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DSM-IV; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84959893700     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000445     Document Type: Article

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