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Impact of depression on quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) directly as well as indirectly throu...

Impact of depression on quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) directly as well as indirectly throu...

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Impact of depression on quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) directly as well as indirectly through suicide

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Full title

Impact of depression on quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) directly as well as indirectly through suicide

Publisher

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Journal title

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2015-06, Vol.50 (6), p.939-949

Language

English

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Publisher

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Scope and Contents

Contents

Purpose
To estimate quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) loss among US adults due to depression and QALE losses associated with the increased risk of suicide attributable to depression.
Method
We ascertained depressive symptoms using the eight-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8) on the 2006, 2008, and 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor S...

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Full title

Impact of depression on quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) directly as well as indirectly through suicide

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4590980

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4590980

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ISSN

0933-7954

E-ISSN

1433-9285

DOI

10.1007/s00127-015-1019-0

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