African American Women’s Beliefs, Coping Behaviors, and Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Services
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African American Women's beliefs, coping behaviors, and barriers to seeking mental health services.
Little is known about African American women's beliefs about mental illness. In this qualitative study we employed the Common Sense Model (CSM) to examine African American women's beliefs about mental illness, coping behaviors, barriers to treatment seeking, and variations in beliefs, coping, and barriers associated with aging. Fifteen community-dwelling African American women participated in i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Qualitative Health Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1049-7323,1552-7557
DOI: 10.1177/1049732309350686