Vacations improve mental health among rural women: The Wisconsin rural women's health study

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 20-23

  Chikani, Vatsal ^a,c   Reding, Douglas ^b   Gunderson, Paul ^b   McCarty, Catherine A ^b  

^a ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^b MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEISURE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOM SAMPLE; RURAL POPULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL POPULATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WISCONSIN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 27744532847     PISSN: 10981861     EISSN: 10981861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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