Acculturative stress, depression, and suicidal ideation among Central American immigrants

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 125-139

  Hovey, Joseph D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEPRESSION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 0034131486     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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