Sexually transmitted disease (STD) diagnoses and mental health disparities among women who have sex with women screened at an Urban Community Health Center, Boston, MA, 2007

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-12

  Reisner, Sari L ^a   Mimiaga, Matthew J ^b,c   Case, Patricia ^b,c   Grasso, Chris ^a   O'Brien, Casey T ^a,d   Harigopal, Padmini ^a   Skeer, Margie ^a,e   Mayer, Kenneth H ^a,f  

^a FENWAY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG ABUSE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GENITAL HERPES; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PATIENT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WART VIRUS;

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BOSTON; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 74249098441     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181b41314     Document Type: Article

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