Literature review reveals variation in depression frequency across adult age groups, highlighting key methodological challenges in epidemiological assessment and etiology research.
This paper reviews some methodological problems in assessing the age distribution of depression, catalogues and summarizes the findings of various epidemiological surveys, and discusses the implications of these findings from the view point of public health, clinical diagnosis, and research into the etiology of depression.
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