Life events, difficulties and onset of depressive episodes in later life
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Life events, difficulties and onset of depressive episodes in later life.
BACKGROUND The importance of stressful life events and long-term difficulties in the onset of episodes of unipolar depression is well established for young and middle-aged persons, but less so for older people. METHOD A prospective case-control study was nested in a large community survey of older people. We recruited 83 onset cases during a 2-year period starting 2 1/2 years after the survey...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Medicine
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0033-2917,1469-8978
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291701004019