A situation-specific theory of Korean immigrant women's menopausal transition

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 333-338

  Im, Eun Ok ^a,c   Meleis, Afaf Ibrahim ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Univ of California San Francisco ^*

^d Alpha Eta   (United States)

Author keywords

Immigrants; Menopause; Theory; Transition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; KOREA; LIFE EVENT; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MODEL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KOREA; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NURSING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 0033255508     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1999.tb00513.x     Document Type: Article

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