Intimate Partner Violence, Depression, and Barriers to Service Utilization in Arab American Women

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-30

  Kulwicki, Anahid ^a   Ballout, Suha ^a   Kilgore, Colleen ^a   Hammad, Adnan ^a   Dervartanian, Hermine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Arab American women; depression; intimate partner violence; service utilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARAB; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; ARABS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919459257     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: 15527832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659614524000     Document Type: Article

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