Barriers to seeking help and treatment suggestions for prenatal depressive symptoms: Focus groups with rural low-income women

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-19

  Jesse, D Elizabeth ^a   Dolbier, Christyn L ^a   Blanchard, Amy ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COOPERATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SELF HELP; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DEPRESSION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANT WOMEN; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; STEREOTYPING; TRUST;

EID: 38649134770     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840701748664     Document Type: Article

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