Women report more intense, more numerous, and more frequent bodily symptoms than men.
This difference appears in samples of medical patients and in community samples, whether …

Effective strategies for mental disorders prevention and its risk factors' reduction cannot be
gender neutral, while the risks themselves are gender specific. This paper aims to discuss …

Objective: This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of mental disorders
among obstetric-gynecologic patients and to assess the validity and utility of the PRIME-MD …

Test-based psychological assessment has been significantly affected by the health care
revolution in the United States during the past two decades. Despite new limitations on …

OBJECTIVE: The Patient Health Questionnaire depression scale (PHQ‐9) is a well‐
validated, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—Fourth Edition (DSM‐IV) …

OBJECTIVE: To describe gender differences in job satisfaction, work life issues, and burnout
of US physicians. DESIGN/PARTICIPANTS: The Physician Work life Study, a nationally …

BackgroundGeneral practitioners play a pivotal part in the recognition and treatment of
psychiatric disorders. Identifying somatoform disorders is important for the choice of …

Objective Women have consistently been shown to report greater numbers of physical
symptoms. Our aim in this study was to assess gender differences for specific symptoms and …

Objective: To determine the prevalence of common mental disorders in an adult primary
care population. Design: Cross-sectional survey in randomly selected subjects, using the …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the obstetric outcome and health care consumption during
pregnancy, delivery, and the early postpartum period in an unselected population-based …