Sickle cell disease: A stigmatizing condition that may lead to depression

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1081-1101

  Jenerette, Coretta ^a   Funk, Marjorie ^a   Murdaugh, Carolyn ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 31544436638     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840500280745     Document Type: Article

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