Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 3-11 , February 2003

No comfort in the rural South: Women living depressed

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Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 3-11 , February 2003

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