Depression - Ethnology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Awareness and causal attributions of risk factors for heart disease among immigrant women living in Australia.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally, and risk factors for CHD are associated with social and cultural attribution as well as individual psychological factors. The aims of this study were to ... Read more...

Symptoms of Turkish patients with depression in Ankara and Berlin.

30 Aug 2009 Numerous studies have investigated the potential impact of migration on psychiatric morbidity levels. Relatively little research has studied how the symptom profiles of patients with similar disorders and similar backgrounds are linked to the ... Read more...

Role of depressive symptoms in explaining socioeconomic status disparities in dietary quality and central adiposity among US adults: a structural equation modeling approach.

24 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: The link between socioeconomic status (SES), depression, dietary quality, and central adiposity remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: Pathways linking SES to dietary quality and central adiposity through depressive symptoms were examined across ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Depression - Ethnology'

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• Awareness and causal attributions of risk factors for heart disease among immigrant women living in Australia. 30 Aug 2009
• Symptoms of Turkish patients with depression in Ankara and Berlin. 30 Aug 2009
• African American men and mental health: is the climate changing? 30 Aug 2009
• Role of depressive symptoms in explaining socioeconomic status disparities in dietary quality and central adiposity among US adults: a structural equation modeling approach. 24 Aug 2009
• Neighborhood characteristics, adherence to walking, and depressive symptoms in midlife African American women. 30 Jul 2009
• Weak nerves. 30 Jul 2009
• Ethnically diverse mothers' views on the acceptability of screening for maternal depressive symptoms during pediatric well-child visits. 30 Jul 2009
• Juggling multiple racial identities: malleable racial identification and psychological well-being. 29 Jun 2009
• Effects of obesity and obesity-induced stress on depressive symptoms in Korean elementary school children. 29 Jun 2009
• Prevalence and correlates of current depressive symptomatology and lifetime diagnosis of depression in Black women. 29 Jun 2009
• Anxiety and depression in Chinese patients attending an Australian GP clinic. 29 Jun 2009
• Ethnic enclave resources and predictors of depression among Arizona's Korean immigrant elders. 29 Jun 2009
• Depression, sexually transmitted infection, and sexual risk behavior among young adults in the United States. 29 Jun 2009
• Poststroke depression: prevalence and determinants in Brazilian stroke patients. 23 Jun 2009
• Characteristics of mood disorders in Japanese patients with medication-overuse headache. 13 Jun 2009
• Prepregnancy depressive mood and preterm birth in black and white women: findings from the CARDIA Study. 30 May 2009
• A culturally sensitive study of premenstrual and menstrual symptoms among Chinese women. 30 May 2009
• Racism and child health: a review of the literature and future directions. 30 May 2009
• Factors influencing internet addiction in a sample of freshmen university students in China. 30 May 2009
• Adaptation of the preventive intervention program for depression for use with predominantly low-income Latino families. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Depression'

Definition: Depressive states usually of moderate intensity in contrast with major depression present in neurotic and psychotic disorders.

Descriptor UI: D003863

Alternative terms: Depression; Depressions; Depressive Symptoms; Depressive Symptom; Symptom, Depressive; Symptoms, Depressive; Emotional Depression; Depression, Emotional; Depressions, Emotional; Emotional Depressions;

Related Mesh Headings: Antidepressive Agents;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F01.145.126.350;

Technical Notes: human & animal; /drug ther: consider also ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; do not confuse this or X ref (depression of "moderate intensity") with DEPRESSIVE DISORDER ("prominent & relatively persistent" depression): psychiatrists differentiate on basis of degree