Psychiatry Research
Volume 129, Issue 1 , Pages 99-106 , 30 November 2004

Estimating depression prevalence from the Beck Depression Inventory: is season of administration a moderator?

  • the ODIN group

      Affiliations

    • The ODIN group is composed of academic colleagues and research and administrative staff who have worked on this part of the project. They are Gail Birkbeck, Trygve Børve, Maura Costello, Pim Cuijpers, Ioana Davies, Graham Dunn, Nicholas Fenlon, Mette Finne, Fiona Ford, Andres Gomes del Barrio, Claire Hayes, Maggie Hendry, Ann Horgan, Tarja Koffert, Nicola Jones, Lourdes Lasa, Marja Lehtilä, Catherine McDonough, Christine Murphy, Anna Nevra, Teija Nummelin, Helen Page and Britta Sohlman.
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  • Erin E. Michalak

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-604-822-7325; fax: +1-604-822-7922.
    • Division of Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, 2255 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 2A1
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  • Greg Murray

      Affiliations

    • School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, John Street Hawthorn, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, 3122, Australia
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  • Clare Wilkinson

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Practice, University of Wales College of Medicine, Wrexham, UK
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  • Chris Dowrick

      Affiliations

    • Department of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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  • Lourdes Lasa

      Affiliations

    • Clinical and Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Hospital de Laredo, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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  • Ville Lehtinen

      Affiliations

    • National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Mental Health Unit, Turku, Finland
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  • Odd Steffen Dalgard

      Affiliations

    • Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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  • Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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  • Jose Luis Vázquez-Barquero

      Affiliations

    • Clinical and Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Universidad de Cantabria and Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, Santander, Spain
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  • Patricia Casey

      Affiliations

    • Mater Misericordiae Hospital, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Received 3 December 2003 ,Revised 29 March 2004 ,Accepted 11 June 2004.

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PII: S0165-1781(04)00163-5

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2004.06.006

Psychiatry Research
Volume 129, Issue 1 , Pages 99-106 , 30 November 2004

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