Depression and loneliness in Jamaicans with sickle cell disease

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Asnani, Monika R ^a   Fraser, Raphael ^a   Lewis, Norma A ^a   Reid, Marvin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAMAICA; LEG ULCER; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; UNEMPLOYMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAMAICA; LONELINESS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77953060111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-10-40     Document Type: Article

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