Perceptions of mental health among recently immigrated Mexican adolescents

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-54

  Garcia, Carolyn M ^a   Saewyc, Elizabeth M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CARE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MEXICAN AMERICANS; NARRATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF CARE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845289012     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840600996257     Document Type: Article

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