Lack of a close confidant: Prevalence and correlates in a medically underserved primary care sample

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 185-192

  Newton, Tamara ^a   Buckley, Amy ^b   Zurlage, Megan ^a   Mitchell, Charlene ^c   Shaw, Ann ^c   Woodruff Borden, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b National Chair American Hand Therapy Foundation   (United States)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Primary care; Social isolation; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONFIDENTIALITY; DEPRESSION; FRIENDS; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRUST;

EID: 41349102373     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548500701405491     Document Type: Article

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