Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 210-216 , May 2008

Relationship of Sleep Quality with Coping and Life Styles in Female Moroccan Immigrants in Germany

  • Ursula Voss, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    • Ursula Voss is a professor of psychology. Her major research interest is in the psychological aspects of sleep.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr. Ursula Voss, Abt. für Allgemeine Psychologie, J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Mertonstr. 17, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Phone: +49-69-4305079; Fax: +49-69-79823457.
    • ,
  • Inka Tuin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, J. Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
    • Inka Tuin is an assistant professor and medical specialist in Neurology at the psychosomatic clinic of Mainz University. Her work focuses on sleep in psychosomatic medicine.

Received 26 April 2007 ,Accepted 15 December 2007.

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 Supported by a government grant from Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst (sleep disorders in women).

PII: S1049-3867(07)00186-7

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.12.002

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 210-216 , May 2008

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