General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 17-23 , January 2012

Depressive symptoms, risk factors and sleep in asthma: results from a national Israeli health survey

  • Aviva Goral, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Mental Health Epidemiology and Psychosocial Aspects of Illness, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Mental Health Epidemiology and Psychosocial Aspects of Illness, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel. Tel.: +972 3 535 4252; fax: +972 3 530 3277.
    • ,
  • Joshua D. Lipsitz, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
    • ,
  • Khitam Muhsen, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
    • ,
  • Raz Gross, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Unit of Mental Health Epidemiology and Psychosocial Aspects of Illness, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel
    • Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
    • Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA

Received 24 May 2011 ,Accepted 10 September 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2011.09.007

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 34, Issue 1 , Pages 17-23 , January 2012

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