Insomnia and its treatment: prevalence and correlates

GD Mellinger, MB Balter… - Archives of general …, 1985 - jamanetwork.com
• Data for this report come from a nationally representative probability sample survey of
noninstitutionalized adults, aged 18 to 79 years. The survey, conducted in 1979, found that …

Interpersonal trust as a factor in communication.

GD Mellinger - The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1956 - psycnet.apa.org
A written questionnaire given to individuals in a large government research laboratory,
inquired about attitudes about changes in a research program, attitudes of trust toward each …

National patterns of psychotherapeutic drug use

HJ Parry, MB Balter, GD Mellinger… - Archives of General …, 1973 - jamanetwork.com
Data on national patterns of use of psychotherapeutic drugs derive from a national sample of
American adults. During the year preceding the interview, 13% of the men and 29% of the …

Symptom checklist syndromes in the general population: correlations with psychotherapeutic drug use

EH Uhlenhuth, MB Balter, GD Mellinger… - Archives of general …, 1983 - jamanetwork.com
• Using symptom checklists administered on a large scale by survey interviewers in the 1979
National Survey of Psychotherapeutic Drug Use, we developed a method for classifying …

Prevalence and correlates of the long-term regular use of anxiolytics

GD Mellinger, MB Balter, EH Uhlenhuth - Jama, 1984 - jamanetwork.com
Long-term use of anxiolytics has been a cause for concern because of the possibility of
dependency and other adverse consequences. In a nationally representative probability …

Personality characteristics of the child accident repeater

DI Manheimer, GD Mellinger - Child development, 1967 - JSTOR
From 8,874 boys and girls aged 4 to 18 in Berkeley-Oakland, California, 684 were selected
to represent high-, intermediate-, or low-accident-liability children, based on records of …

Psychic distress, life crisis, and use of psychotherapeutic medications: National Household Survey data

GD Mellinger, MB Balter, DI Manheimer… - Archives of General …, 1978 - jamanetwork.com
• Findings are reported from a nationwide survey of a crosssection probability sample (N=
2,552) of US adults. Data on psychic distress were obtained from a shortened version of the …

Patterns of psychotherapeutic drug use among adults in San Francisco

GD Mellinger, MB Balter… - Archives of General …, 1971 - jamanetwork.com
Data on use of psychotherapeutic drugs were obtained in personal interviews with a cross-
section sample of adults in San Francisco. Proportions using such drugs during the year …

Risks and benefits of long-term benzodiazepine use

EH Uhlenhuth, H DeWIT, MB Balter… - Journal of Clinical …, 1988 - journals.lww.com
Despite a sharp decline in the prescription of benzodiazepines during the past decade,
reservations about their use have continued to escalate. This article presents converging …

Popular attitudes and beliefs about tranquilizers

DI Manheimer, ST Davidson, MB Balter… - American journal of …, 1973 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
In a nationwide survey of the extent and nature of psychotherapeutic drug use, respondents
were also questioned about their knowledge of tranquilizers and their attitudes toward the …