Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 384-389 , September 2005

Insight and correlates among outpatients with depressive disorders

  • Cheng-Fang Yen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
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  • Cheng-Chung Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 7 3121101x6811; fax: +886 7 3134761.
    • ,
  • Yu Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Tze-Chun Tang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chih-Hung Ko

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ju-Yu Yen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.11.004

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 384-389 , September 2005

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