Life events and difficulties and their association with antenatal distress in White and South Asian women in the UK

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 725-734

  Traviss, Gemma D ^a   Meer, Shaista ^a   West, Robert M ^a   House, Allan O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antenatal depression; Ethnicity; Life events; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893689012     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-012-0584-8     Document Type: Article

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