Focus groups: Examining a community-based group intervention for depressed Puerto Rican women

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 679-700

  Stacciarini, Jeanne Marie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUERTO RICO; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; PUERTO RICO; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL VALUES; WOMEN;

EID: 46349091997     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840802128998     Document Type: Article

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