Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 5 , Pages 313-324 , September 2009

Psychiatric Disorders Among Low-Income Women and Unintended Pregnancies

  • Leigh E. Tenkku, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community and Family Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr. Leigh Ellen Tenkku, Saint Louis University, Department of Community and Family Medicine, 1402 South Grand Ave, St. Louis, MO 63104. Phone: 314-977-8481; Fax: 314-977-5268.
    • ,
  • Louise H. Flick, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois
    • ,
  • Sharon Homan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Kansas Health Institute, Topeka, Kansas
    • ,
  • Cynthia A. Loveland Cook, PhD

      Affiliations

    • College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
    • ,
  • Claudia Campbell, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
    • ,
  • Maryellen McSweeney, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Retired

Received 20 November 2008 ,Revised 4 June 2009 ,Accepted 16 July 2009.

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 Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (R01/MH57736-03), SLU2000 Research Initiative, and Saint Louis University Beaumont Award.

PII: S1049-3867(09)00073-5

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2009.07.006

Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 5 , Pages 313-324 , September 2009

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