Depression among Korean, Korean American, and Caucasian American Family Caregivers

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 18-25

  Lee, Eunice E ^a   Farran, Carol J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

caregiver relationships; Caucasian American caregivers; cross cultural comparisons; depressive symptoms; family caregiving; Korean American caregivers; Korean caregivers

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAREGIVER; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMENTIA; EMOTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION SIZE;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CAREGIVERS; CHICAGO; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; KOREA; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 1442335221     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: 15527832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659603260010     Document Type: Article

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