Depression and sexual functioning in minority women: Current status and future directions

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-36

  Dobkin, Roseanne DeFronzo ^a   Leiblum, Sandra R ^a   Rosen, Raymond C ^a   Menza, Matthew ^a   Marin, Humberto ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENDER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE SATISFACTION; MINORITY GROUP; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION;

ANXIETY; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33644946259     PISSN: 0092623X     EISSN: 15210715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00926230500229251     Document Type: Review

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