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Living alone and antidepressant medication use: a prospective study in a working-age population

Pulkki-Råback, L; Kivimäki, M; Ahola, K; Joutsenniemi, K; Elovainio, M; Rossi, H; Puttonen, S; ... Virtanen, M; + view all (2012) Living alone and antidepressant medication use: a prospective study in a working-age population. BMC Public Health , 12 , Article 236. 10.1186/1471-2458-12-236. Green open access

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Abstract

An increasing proportion of the population lives in one-person households. The authors examined whether living alone predicts the use of antidepressant medication and whether socioeconomic, psychosocial, or behavioral factors explain this association.

Type: Article
Title: Living alone and antidepressant medication use: a prospective study in a working-age population
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-236
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-236
Language: English
Additional information: © 2012 Pulkki-Råback et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMCID: PMC3338384
Keywords: Adult, Age Distribution, Aged, Antidepressive Agents, Cluster Analysis, Drug Utilization, Educational Status, Employment, Female, Finland, Follow-Up Studies, Health Behavior, Humans, Male, Marital Status, Middle Aged, Prospective Studies, Psychosocial Deprivation, Questionnaires, Regression Analysis, Residence Characteristics, Socioeconomic Factors
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1387338
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