Trichotillomania symptoms in African American women: Are they related to anxiety and culture?

CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 207-213

  Neal Barnett, Angela ^a   Statom, Deborah ^b   Stadulis, Robert ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Anxiety; Cultural messages; Trichotillomania

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREDICTION; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TELEPHONE; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRICHOTILLOMANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79851508923     PISSN: 17555930     EISSN: 17555949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-5949.2010.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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