Social support, exposure to violence and transphobia, and correlates of depression among male-to-female transgender women with a history of sex work

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1980-1988

  Nemoto, Tooru ^a   Bödeker, Birte ^b   Iwamoto, Mariko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MALE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; RAPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CALIFORNIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RAPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSSEXUALISM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 80053003417     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.197285     Document Type: Article

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