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.
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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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