general population
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneralandpopulation
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general
adjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofgeneralandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is of course possible that the more favourable validity criteria coefficients reported here may not generalize to thegeneralpopulationsetting.
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Screening for psychosis in thegeneralpopulationwith a selfreport interview.
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Patients with schizophrenia have a winter-spring excess of births compared with thegeneralpopulation, the cause of which is unresolved.
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This study considered whether the causes of depression occurring before and after myocardial infarction were similar to those of depression in thegeneralpopulation.
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There is also a problem with the reproducibility of diagnoses generated using semistructured ' clinical ' interviews in thegeneralpopulation.
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We identified two studies that examined this phenomenon in thegeneralpopulation.
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Thus, these results may not apply to a moregeneralpopulationof unscreened individuals.
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The hypothesized discontinuity between depression and health should be studied in thegeneralpopulation.
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Major depression is a prevalent mental disorder in thegeneralpopulation, with a multi-factorial etiology.
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The incidence of non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease among thegeneralpopulationis not known.
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The bifoliate valve is usually present in thegeneralpopulationas an isolated anomaly.
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In 1950, computer technology was unknown to thegeneralpopulation.
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Considering the level of risk in thegeneralpopulation, this corresponds to about 10 and 50% risks, respectively.
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Moreover, these individuals have a subsequently higher risk for a postpartum depression than thegeneralpopulation, and this needs to be considered as well.
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Another situation requiring a degree of imprecision is extrapolation from a necessarily small experimental sample (especially in biomedical research) to thegeneralpopulation.
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Through all of these, thegeneralpopulationis exposed to persons of stature for whom mental illness is a fact of life.
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It was originally developed to assess the prevalence and incidence of specific psychiatric disorders in thegeneralpopulation.
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Linking theory of mind and central coherence bias in autism and in thegeneralpopulation.
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