Mental health aspects of Turkish women from polygamous versus monogamous families

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 214-220

  Ozkan, Mustafa ^a   Altindag, Abdurrahman ^b   Oto, Remzi ^a   Sentunali, Esin ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b HARRAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MONOGAMY; POLYGAMY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOMATIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TURKEY;

EID: 33745228929     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764006067207     Document Type: Article

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