A comparative cross-cultural study of the prevalence of late life depression in low and middle income countries

Guerra, Mariella; Prina, Matthew; P. Ferri, Cleusa; Acosta, Daisy; Gallardo, Sara; Huang, Yueqin; S. Jacob, K.; Z. Jiménez‐Velázquez, Ivonne; J. Llibre Rodríguez, Juan; Liu, Zhaorui; Salas, Aquiles; Luisa Sosa, Ana; D. Williams, Joseph; Uwakwe, Richard; Prince, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2015.09.004

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A comparative cross-cultural study of the prevalence of late life depression in low and middle income countries

Published in Journal of Affective Disorders • Oct 25, 2015

Authors:

Mariella Guerra

Matthew Prina

Cleusa P. Ferri

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Current estimates of the prevalence of depression in later life mostly arise from studies carried out in Europe, North America and Asia. In this study we aimed to measure the prevalence of depression using a standardised method in a number of low and middle income countries (LMIC). METHO...

Subject

Depression (economics)

Low and middle income countries

Cross-cultural studies

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