The relationship between psychosocial status, acculturation and country of origin in mid-life Hispanic women: Data from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)

Climacteric

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 534-543

  Green, R ^a   Santoro, N F ^a   McGinn, A P ^b   Wildman, R P ^b   Derby, C A ^a,b   Polotsky, A J ^a   Weiss, G ^c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Epidemiology and Population Health ^*  (United States)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

ACCULTURATION; HISPANIC; MENOPAUSE; PSYCHOLOGY; WOMEN

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CUBA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DOMINICA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HISPANIC; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERTO RICO; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AMERICA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; ANXIETY; CENTRAL AMERICA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CUBA; DEPRESSION; DOMINICA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUERTO RICO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP DISORDERS; SOUTH AMERICA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 78649234606     PISSN: 13697137     EISSN: 14730804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13697131003592713     Document Type: Article

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