Chronic medical conditions and negative affect; racial variation in reciprocal associations over time

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Assari, Shervin ^a,b   Lankarani, Maryam Moghani ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Medicine and Health Promotion Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

African Americans; Chronic medical conditions; Depression; Ethnic groups; Population groups

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLACK PERSON; BRONCHITIS; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MIGRAINE; PREDICTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; THYROID DISEASE; ULCER;

EID: 84988808480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00140     Document Type: Article

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