Coping and chronic psychosocial consequences of female genital mutilation in the Netherlands

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 677-695

  Vloeberghs, Erick ^a   Van Der Kwaak, Anke ^b   Knipscheer, Jeroen ^c,d   Van Den Muijsenbergh, Maria ^a,e  

^a Pharos (Knowledge and Advisory Centre on Refugees   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Arq Foundation   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

African immigrant women; Chronic mental problems; FGM C; Psychosexual problems

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ETHNICITY; HEALTH POLICY; IMMIGRANT; MENTAL HEALTH; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SYMPTOM; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NETHERLANDS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHAME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ANXIETY; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; DEPRESSION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SHAME; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84876115033     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2013.771148     Document Type: Article

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