The relationship between age of menarche and mental distress in Norwegian adolescent girls and girls from different immigrant groups in Norway: Results from an urban city cross-sectional survey

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 285-295

  Lien, Lars ^a   Dalgard, Florence ^a   Heyerdahl, Sonja ^b   Thoresen, Magne ^a   Bjertness, Espen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Reg Ctr for Child/Adol Psychiat   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Body mass index; Immigrant groups; Menarche; Mental distress; Norway; Pubertal development

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; IMMIGRANT; MENTAL HEALTH; URBAN AREA; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MENARCHE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NORWAY; PUBERTY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENARCHE; NORWAY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33646827286     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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