The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA): rationale, objectives and methods
University Medical Center Groningen · University of Groningen · +7 more institutions
Abstract
The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) is a multi-site naturalistic cohort study to: (1) describe the long-term course and consequences of depressive and anxiety disorders, and (2) to integrate biological and psychosocial research paradigms within an epidemiological approach in order to examine (interaction between) predictors of the long-term course and consequences. Its design is an eight-year longitudinal cohort study among 2981 participants aged 18 through 65 years. The sample consists of 1701 persons with a current (six-month recency) diagnosis of depression and/or anxiety disorder, 907 persons with life-time diagnoses or at risk because of a family history or subthreshold depressive or…
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Authors
17- BWBrenda W.J.H. PenninxCorresponding
University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Leiden University Medical Center, Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- ATAartjan T.F. Beekman
Amsterdam Public Health
- JHJohannes H. Smit
Amsterdam Public Health
- FGFrans G. Zitman
Leiden University Medical Center
- WAWillem A. Nolen
University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen
Topics & keywords
- Anxiety
- Psychosocial
- Clinical psychology
- Mental health
- Population
- Cohort
- Psychopathology
- Psychiatry
- Good health and well-being