The mental health of US Black women: The roles of social context and severe intimate partner violence

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Lacey, Krim K ^a   Parnell, Regina ^b   Mouzon, Dawne M ^c   Matusko, Niki ^a   Head, Doreen ^b   Abelson, Jamie M ^a   Jackson, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AGORAPHOBIA; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BULIMIA; CARIBBEAN; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DSM-IV; DYSTHYMIA; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945969158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008415     Document Type: Article

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