Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms among Housemaids

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 685-691

  Sales, Eliane Cardoso ^a,b   Santana, Vilma Sousa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiety symptoms; Depressive symptoms; Gender and work; Housemaid; Service workers

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAZIL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAZIL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0344827272     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.10280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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