Ethnic differences in separate and additive effects of anxiety and depression on self-rated mental health among blacks

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 423-430

  Assari, Shervin ^a,b   Dejman, Masoumeh ^c   Neighbors, Harold W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Ethnic groups; Psychiatric disorders; Self rated mental health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; CARIBBEAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CARIBBEAN REGION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT GENERATED HEALTH DATA;

EID: 85015383716     PISSN: 21973792     EISSN: 21968837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40615-015-0154-3     Document Type: Article

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