"My children and my home": The most recent and challenging stressors of HIV-positive women

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-222

  Ndlovu, Uitsile ^a   Ion, Allyson ^b   Carvalhal, Adriana ^b  

^a ONTARIO HIV TREATMENT NETWORK   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Coping; HIV; Housing; Stressors; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIVORCE; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIFE STRESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAYS OF COPING QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOUSING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; ONTARIO; PREGNANCY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 77955927193     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-010-0148-4     Document Type: Article

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