Conditional risk for PTSD among Latinos: A systematic review of racial/ethnic differences and sociocultural explanations

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 107-119

  Alcántara, Carmela ^a   Casement, Melynda D ^b   Lewis Fernández, Roberto ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hispanics; Immigrants; Mental health; Psychosocial risk factors; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ACCULTURATION; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84868701591     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: 18737811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2012.10.005     Document Type: Review

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