The role of socio-economic status in depression: results from the COURAGE (aging survey in Europe)

• Main Authors: Aislinne Freeman (Author), Stefanos Tyrovolas (Author), Ai Koyanagi (Author), Somnath Chatterji (Author), Matilde Leonardi (Author), Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos (Author), Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk (Author), Seppo Koskinen (Author), Christine Rummel-Kluge (Author), Josep Maria Haro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Low socio-economic status (SES) has been found to be associated with a higher prevalence of depression. However, studies that have investigated this association have been limited in their national scope, have analyzed different components of SES separately, and have not used stan...