Social class and minor psychiatric disorder in British Civil Servants: a validated screening survey using the General Health Questionnaire.

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Published in Psychol Med on August 01, 1992

Authors

S A Stansfeld1, M G Marmot

Author Affiliations

1: Academic Department of Psychiatry, University College and Middlesex Hospital School of Medicine, London.

Associated clinical trials:

Whitehall II - Social and Occupational Influences On Health and Illness | NCT00005680

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