Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 6 , Pages 372-379 , November 2006

Sexual assault patterns among women with and without disabilities seeking survivor services

  • Angela Nannini, PhD, FNP

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Angela Nannini, PhD, FNP, School of Nursing, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, 106D Robinson Hall, Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115-5000.

Received 14 September 2005 ,Revised 4 April 2006 ,Accepted 30 August 2006.

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 Funded in part by the Merck Scholars II Dissertation Fellowship at the Florence Heller School for Social Policy, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.

PII: S1049-3867(06)00110-1

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2006.10.001

Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 6 , Pages 372-379 , November 2006