Acculturation and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Vietnamese Immigrant Women in Transnational Marriages in Taiwan

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-413

  Yang, Yung Mei ^a   Wang, Hsiu Hung ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

community health; correlational design; transcultural health; Vietnamese immigrant women in Taiwan; women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPOUSE; TAIWAN; VIET NAM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPOUSES; TAIWAN; VIETNAM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 81155131907     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: 15527832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659611414144     Document Type: Article

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