A national multiethnic online forum study on menopausal symptom experience

Nursing Research

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-33

  Im, Eun Ok ^a   Lee, Bokim ^a   Chee, Wonshik ^b   Dormire, Sharon ^a   Brown, Adama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Menopause; Midlife; Symptoms; Women

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERNET; MENOPAUSE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFERY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 73549124775     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0b013e3181c3bd69     Document Type: Article

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