Immigrant status, antenatal depressive symptoms, and frequency and source of violence: What's the relationship?

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 387-396

  Miszkurka, Malgorzata ^a   Zunzunegui, Maria Victoria ^a   Goulet, Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Depression; Immigrant status; Pregnancy; Violence

Indexed keywords

ABUSE ASSESSMENT SCREEN SCALE; ADULT; ANTENATAL DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOM; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; CANADA; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMMIGRANT; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; THREAT; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; QUEBEC; RISK; SPOUSE ABUSE; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866737532     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: 14351102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-012-0298-7     Document Type: Article

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