TY - JOUR
AU1 - Mikolajczyk, Rafael
AU2 - Maxwell, Annette
AU3 - El Ansari, Walid
AU4 - Naydenova, Vihra
AU5 - Stock, Christiane
AU6 - Ilieva, Snezhana
AU7 - Dudziak, Urszula
AU8 - Nagyova, Iveta
AB - SPPE 282 Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2008) 43:105–112 DOI 10.1007/s00127-007-0282-0 ORIGINAL PAPER Rafael T. Mikolajczyk Æ Annette E. Maxwell Æ Walid El Ansari Æ Vihra Naydenova Æ Christiane Stock Snezhana Ilieva Æ Urszula Dudziak Æ Iveta Nagyova Prevalence of depressive symptoms in university students from Germany, Denmark, Poland and Bulgaria Received: 14 March 2007 / Accepted: 16 October 2007 / Published online: 23 November 2007 j Abstract Background Previous research indicated health survey among first year students (N = 2,651) a higher prevalence of depressive symptoms among from two Western (Germany and Denmark) and two students from Eastern European countries than stu- Eastern European countries (Poland and Bulgaria), our dents from Western European countries. This differ- analysis was restricted to 2,146 students below 23 years ence was thought to be linked to political and economic of age. Depressive symptoms were measured using the instabilities resulting from political changes in the early Modified Beck Depression Inventory (M-BDI). The 1990s. We investigated whether these differences per- recommended cut-off point of the M-BDI for depres- sist 15 years later. Methods Using data from a general sion screening in the general population is a score of ‡35. Perceived income sufficiency was measured on 
TI - Prevalence of depressive symptoms in university students from Germany, Denmark, Poland and Bulgaria
JF - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
DO - 10.1007/s00127-007-0282-0
DA - 2007-11-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/prevalence-of-depressive-symptoms-in-university-students-from-germany-8vSvjIw2yL
SP - 105
EP - 112
VL - 43
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -