Enhancing Women's Mood and Energy: A Research‐based Program for Subthreshold Depression Using Light, Exercise, and Vitamins

Holistic Nursing Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 278-284

  Brown, Marie Annette ^a   Shirley, Jamie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysthymia; Minor depression; Or atypical depressive symptoms; Somatic; Subsyndromal depression; Subthreshold depression; Vegetative

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NURSING; PHILOSOPHY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; VITAMINS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33644830753     PISSN: 08879311     EISSN: 15505138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004650-200511000-00009     Document Type: Article

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