Sexual Victimization and Somatic Complaints in Pregnancy: Examination of Depression as a Mediator

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 696-702

  Littleton, Heather ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARM PAIN; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EDUCATION; EFFECT SIZE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FAINTNESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART RATE TURBULENCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIGESTION; LEG PAIN; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE INCOME; NAUSEA; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 15; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL ASSAULT; SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STOMACH PAIN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; VICTIM; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE SURVIVOR; CRIME VICTIM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ETHNOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84946500294     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2015.06.013     Document Type: Article

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