Do specialist community public health nurses assess risk factors for depression, suicide, and self-harm among south asian mothers living in London?: Special features: Clinical concepts

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 277-289

  Baldwin, Sharin ^a   Griffiths, Peter ^b  

^a City and Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Health visitors SCPHNs; Self harm; South Asian mothers; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTOMUTILATION; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASIA, WESTERN; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LONDON; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 64949203857     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2009.00780.x     Document Type: Article

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