Sexual assault history and medical care seeking: the roles of symptom prevalence and illness behavior.
Persons with a history of sexual assault seek more health care than do others. The present study explored whether this difference is due to poorer health or a unique pattern of illness behavior among assaulted persons. Interviews were conducted with 6125 randomly selected residents of two communitie...
| Publicado en: | Psychology & Health Vol. 14; no. 5; pp. 949 - 958 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep99
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