Parental stress among african american parents and grandparents

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 373-387

  Taylor, Jacquelyn Y ^a   Washington, Olivia G M ^b   Artinian, Nancy T ^b   Lichtenberg, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBESITY; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OBESITY; PARENTING; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34247484422     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840701244466     Document Type: Article

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