Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 4 , Pages 323-333 , August 2009

Perspectives About Depression: Explanatory Models Among African-American Women

  • Roberta Waite

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding Author: Roberta Waite, EdD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, Drexel University, Mail Stop 1030, Philadelphia, PA 19102.
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  • Priscilla Killian

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doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2008.05.009

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 4 , Pages 323-333 , August 2009

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