Childhood sexual abuse severity and disclosure as predictors of depression among adult African-American and Latina women

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 471-477

  Sciolla, Andres ^a   Glover, Dorothy A ^b   Loeb, Tamra B ^b   Zhang, Muyu ^b   Myers, Hector F ^c   Wyatt, Gail E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African American women; Childhood sexual abuse; depression; disclosure; Latinas

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SELF BLAME; SELF CONCEPT; SELF DISCLOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; AFRICAN AMERICANS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959889479     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31822142ac     Document Type: Article

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