Associations between HIV-Related stigma, racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and depression among hiv-positive african, caribbean, and black women in Ontario, Canada

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 114-122

  Logie, Carmen ^a   James, Llana ^b   Tharao, Wangari ^b   Loutfy, Mona ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AIDS; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CANADA; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; NEGRO; RACISM; SELF CONCEPT; SEXISM; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ONTARIO; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); RACISM; RISK FACTORS; SEXISM; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84873376306     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: 15577449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2012.0296     Document Type: Article

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