Social relations and mental health among Arab-American elders.
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One hundred Arab-American elders, ages 60 years and older, participated in a pilot study funded by the National Institute of Aging. The study group comprised both immigrant and US-born elders who answered survey questions about social relations and health. Univariate analyses focused on how immigrant status and gender related to social relations, followed by regression models that examined whether social relations predicted depression.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Ethnicity & disease
دوره 15 1 Suppl 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005