Abuse and violence during home care work as predictor of worker depression

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-77

  Geiger Brown, Jeanne ^a   Muntaner, Carles ^b   McPhaul, Kathleen ^a   Lipscomb, Jane ^a   Trinkoff, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abuse; Depression; Elder abuse; Home health care; Mental health; Nurse's aide; Nursing; Nursing assistant; Occupational disease; Personal care; Violence; Work stress; Workplace violence

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

AGED; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOME HEALTH AIDES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33947718051     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J027v26n01_05     Document Type: Article

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