Ethnicity, psychosocial risk, and perinatal depression-a comparative study among inner-city women in the United Kingdom

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 291-295

  Edge, Dawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black Caribbean women; Ethnicity; Perinatal depression; Psychosocial risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERINATAL STRESS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNITED KINGDOM; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; ENGLAND; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34547951280     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2007.02.013     Document Type: Article

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