title: Psychosocial stress and minor psychiatric morbidity: a community study in Taiwan.
abstract: The relationship between acute life events, chronic psychosocial stressors, sociodemographic variables, and minor psychiatric morbidity (MPM) was investigated in a community sample (n = 489) in Taiwan. A higher risk of MPM was found among women with chronic stressors and respondents with both events and stressors. There was no sex difference over the impact of events on such morbidity. The relative odds of MPM for respondents exposed to event(s) was found to be 8.9.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Republic of China.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D013624:Taiwan