Odd Steffen Dalgard

..Powerlessness also plays a role, but this is mainly because of a concept overlap between psychological distress and powerlessness...

..To explore if differences in negative life events, vulnerability and social support may explain the gender difference in depression...

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..Only a relatively small proportion of depressed people receive treatment; hence there is a great need for further development of feasible treatment programmes...

..Studies have shown that social integration may have a positive as well as a negative effect on the mental health of immigrants, depending on the social circumstances...

..The reason for this, however, is not clear, and the purpose of the present study was to explore possible mediating factors between social status and mental health...

..This is within the limits of what society is generally willing to pay in order to gain life years. Because of possible reductions in sick leave, societal net costs may be modest...

..We aimed to test the hypothesis that differences in disability pensioning among different ethnic groups were attributable to differences in occupation, income, health, and mental distress...

..The aim of the study was to determine the socio-demographic, psychosocial and health characteristics of users of the senior centres in relation to non-users in order to find out who can benefit from the senior centre service...

..This study examines the factorial structure and factorial invariance of the SWLS in a Norwegian sample...

..To investigate the relationships between type A behaviour pattern (TABP) and psychological distress measured in middle aged men participating in two surveys 28 years apart...

..An operational advantage of the MHI-5 over the SCL instruments is that it has been widely used not only in surveys of mental health, but also in surveys of general health...

..There have been no previous studies conducted in Pakistan comparing the concordance of any well established Western anxiety/depression screening instrument with an indigenous scale, in a community based setting...

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..This means that both pre-migration and post-migration factors were associated with the higher level of distress among immigrants from low-income countries, the post-migration factors in the host country probably being the most important...

..The association between social support and service use suggests that interventions may be needed for those who lack social support...

..Does mastering abilities have an independent effect on disability pensioning? Are some of the large divides across education explained by mastering factors when adjusted for health?..

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..Although limited by a post hoc analysis of existing data, this study provides the strongest evidence to date that season of administration is not a moderator of depression prevalence as estimated by the BDI...

..Women's elevated risk of depression compared to men is a common finding in psychiatric epidemiology. Studies conducted in the 1950s and 1970s, however, documented approximately equal prevalence of sex rates...

..The most striking result was the large urban/rural difference in women in the two countries from the British Isles which could not be totally explained by the socio-demographic factors included in this study...

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