Migration from Mexico to the United States and subsequent risk for depressive and anxiety disorders: A cross-national study

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 428-433

  Breslau, Joshua ^a   Borges, Guilherme ^b   Tancredi, Daniel ^a   Saito, Naomi ^a   Kravitz, Richard ^a   Hinton, Ladson ^a   Vega, William ^c   Medina Mora, Maria Elena ^b   Aguilar Gaxiola, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEXICO; MIGRATION; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953757097     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.21     Document Type: Article

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