Prevalence of and risk and protective factors for depression in female-to-male transgender ontarians: Trans PULSE project

Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-155

  Rotondi, Nooshin ^a   Bauer, Greta ^a   Scanlon, Kyle ^b   Kaay, Matthias ^c   Travers, Robb ^d   Travers, Anna ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b 519 Church Street Community Centre   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^d WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Rainbow Health Ontario   (Canada)

Author keywords

depression; d pression; chantillonnage en fonction des r pondants et r pondantes; facteurs de risque et facteurs protecteurs; female to male; femme vers homme; Ontario; respondent driven sampling; risk and protective factors; transgender; transgenre

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859027725     PISSN: 07133936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7870/cjcmh-2011-0021     Document Type: Article

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