Prevalence, comorbidity and predictors of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents in rural north-eastern Uganda.

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Published in Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health on July 10, 2013

Authors

Catherine Abbo1, Eugene Kinyanda, Ruth B Kizza, Jonathan Levin, Sheilla Ndyanabangi, Dan J Stein

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychiatry, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, P,O,BOX 7072, Kampala, Uganda. cathyabbo@chs.mak.ac.ug.

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