Depressive Symptoms Predict Major Depressive Disorder after 15 Years among Whites but Not Blacks

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Moazen Zadeh, Ehsan ^a,b   Assari, Shervin ^c,d  

^a Medicine and Health Promotion Institute   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; depression; depressive symptoms; ethnic groups; reliability; validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975262033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00013     Document Type: Article

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