Barriers and facilitators of social supports for immigrant and refugee women coping with postpartum depression

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  O'Mahony, Joyce Maureen ^a,b   Donnelly, Tam Truong ^a   Bouchal, Shelley Raffin ^a   Este, David ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

health care access; immigrants; postpartum depression; refugees; social supports; women

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MOTHER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REFUGEE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALBERTA; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; REFUGEES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864845135     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0b013e3182626137     Document Type: Article

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