Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages 212-214 , June 2010

Stress Experienced by Guatemalan–Mayan Immigrants

  • Eugenia I. Millender

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding Author: Eugenia Millender, MS, RN, CCRN, PhD, Student, Florida Atlantic Univeristy, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, 777 Glades Road, Boca, Raton, FL 33431.

Received 2 April 2009 ,Accepted 2 April 2009.

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PII: S0883-9417(09)00046-6

doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2009.04.001

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages 212-214 , June 2010