All on edge
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https://doi.org/10.30860/0134Keywords:
Mental disorder, Self-administered questionnaires, Epidemiology, Psychopathology, PlanningAbstract
The article comments on recent research by McCaffree and Saide based on a self-administered questionnaire that finds a high prevalence of psychiatric symptoms in the U.S. population, but without a correlation with real symptoms. It is proposed that awareness about mental health issues favors the identification of normal emotions as pathological.
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