Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 5 , Pages 375-380 , September 2008

Depressive Symptoms and Interpersonal Victimization Among African American Women Attending an Urban STD Clinic

  • Makeda J. Williams, PhD, MPH, CHES

      Affiliations

    • National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Makeda J. Williams, PhD, MPH, CHES, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6130 Executive Blvd, Suite 100, Bethesda, MD 20892; Phone 301-451-1445; Fax: 301-496-3954
    • ,
  • Diane M. Grimley, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Behavior, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, Alabama

Received 17 May 2007 ,Revised 30 May 2008 ,Accepted 24 June 2008.

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 Supported by NIH Grant (#: U 19AI35814-06, NIAID).

PII: S1049-3867(08)00091-1

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.06.004

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 5 , Pages 375-380 , September 2008

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