The Depression of Widowhood
- 29 January 1972
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 120 (554) , 71-77
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.120.554.71
Abstract
A group of 109 randomly selected widows and widowers, average age 61, were evaluated one month after the deaths of their spouses. Thirty-five per cent of them had a collection of depressive symptoms similar to those common in psychiatric depressed patients.Keywords
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