Postpartum mental illness: Perspectives from an arabian gulf population

Psychological Reports

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-136

  Ghubash, Rafia ^a,b   Eapen, Valsamma ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RELIGION; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SUPERSTITION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARABS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; ISLAM; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SUPERSTITIONS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 70350116150     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.105.1.127-136     Document Type: Article

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