Symptoms Experienced During Menopausal Transition: Korean Women in South Korea and the United States

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 321-328

  im, Eun ok ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

culture; immigration; Korean; Korean American; menopause; symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; LIFE EVENT; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; CASE FINDING; CLIMACTERIUM; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE WORKER; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; WOMEN;

EID: 0642314449     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: 15527832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659603257160     Document Type: Article

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