Association Between Nonspecific Severe Psychological Distress as an Indicator of Serious Mental Illness and Increasing Levels of Medical Multimorbidity | Zendy

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Association Between Nonspecific Severe Psychological Distress as an Indicator of Serious Mental Illness and Increasing Levels of Medical Multimorbidity

Author(s) -

James A. Swartz,

Ian Jantz

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2014.302165

Subject(s) - multimorbidity , distress , medicine , mental health , association (psychology) , logistic regression , ordered logit , psychological distress , psychiatry , mental illness , substance abuse , medical care , environmental health , comorbidity , family medicine , clinical psychology , psychology , machine learning , computer science , psychotherapist

We sought to determine whether severe psychological distress (SPD) and serious mental illnesses (SMIs) are associated with a specific set of chronic medical conditions (CMCs) and the association between SPD-SMIs and increasing levels of medical multimorbidity and complexity (i.e., from 1 to 3 or more CMCs).

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