Enduring financial crisis in Greece: prevalence and correlates of major depression and suicidality

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1015-1024

  Economou, Marina ^a,b   Angelopoulos, Elias ^a,b   Peppou, Lily Evangelia ^a   Souliotis, Kyriakos ^b,c   Tzavara, Chara ^b   Kontoangelos, Konstantinos ^a,b   Madianos, Michael ^d   Stefanis, Costas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Affective disorders; Economic hardship; Mental health; Recession; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84968662292     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-016-1238-z     Document Type: Article

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