Perspectives About Depression: Explanatory Models Among African-American Women

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 323-333

  Waite, Roberta ^a   Killian, Priscilla ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUSALITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEW ENGLAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; WOMEN;

EID: 67650609163     PISSN: 08839417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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