The use of the puerto rican biculturality scale with puerto rican drug users in new york and puerto rico

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-207

  Cortés, Dharma E ^a   Deren, Sherry ^b   Andía, Jonny ^b   Colón, Héctor ^c   Robles, Rafaela ^c   Kang, Sung Yeon ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^c SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Biculturalism; HIV risk; Puerto Ricans; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MEXICO; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042667079     PISSN: 02791072     EISSN: 21599777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2003.10400001     Document Type: Article

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