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| Sarah E RomansSummaryAffiliation: Women's College Hospital Country: Canada Publications
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Becoming the best mom that I can: women's experiences of managing depression during pregnancy--a qualitative studyHeather A Bennett
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, 144 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3M2, Canada
BMC Womens Health 7:13. 2007..The purpose of this constructivist grounded theory study was to develop a theoretical model that explains women's processes of managing diagnosed depression when pregnant...
Women's perceptions of influences on their moodSarah E Romans
Women s College Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
Women Health 49:32-49. 2009..They also rated the frequency and recurrence patterns (cyclicity) of their daily positive and negative moods...
Gender and psychotropic medication use: the role of intimate partner violenceSarah E Romans
Women s College Research Institute, 790 Bay Street, 8th Floor, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1N8
Prev Med 46:615-21. 2008..Women are known to use more psychotropic medications than men which may be linked to women's greater exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV)...
Crying as a gendered indicator of depressionSarah E Romans
Women s College Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
J Nerv Ment Dis 196:237-43. 2008..Men may show other symptoms when depressed more than women, such as aggression and irritability. The inclusion of crying items in depression instruments may therefore introduce a gender bias in the assessment of depression...
Unexplained and underpowered: the relationship between psychosomatic disorders and interpersonal abuse -- a critical reviewSarah Romans
Women s College Research Institute, Women s College Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Harv Rev Psychiatry 16:35-54. 2008..More research - paying particular regard to the methodological concerns identified here - is required in order to generate any definitive conclusions...
Gender differences in the symptoms of major depressive disorderSarah E Romans
Women s College Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:905-11. 2007..The question is raised whether these items preferentially bias assessment of gender differences in depression, particularly in nonclinic samples...
Intimate partner violence among Canadian women with activity limitationsMarsha M Cohen
Centre for Research in Women s Health, Sunnybrook and Women s Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, 790 Bay Street, 7th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1N8
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:834-9. 2005..To determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the previous five years among women reporting activity limitations (AL)...
Help-seeking rates for intimate partner violence (IPV) among Canadian immigrant womenIlene Hyman
Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Health Care Women Int 27:682-94. 2006..Findings have important implications for prevention and detection of IPV in immigrant communities and in future research...
The association between length of stay in Canada and intimate partner violence among immigrant womenIlene Hyman
Centre for Research in Women s Health, 790 Bay St, 7th Fl, Toronto, ON, Canada
Am J Public Health 96:654-9. 2006..We examined the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among recent (0-9 years) and nonrecent (>/= 10 years) immigrant women in Canada to determine whether differences in IPV were associated with length of stay in Canada...
Help-seeking behavior for intimate partner violence among racial minority women in CanadaIlene Hyman
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Womens Health Issues 19:101-8. 2009..The main objective of this paper was to determine whether a woman's racial minority status was a significant predictor of help-seeking for IPV after controlling for other factors associated with help-seeking...
Changing help-seeking rates for intimate partner violence in CanadaJanice Du Mont
Centre for Research in Women s Health, Sunnybrook and Women s College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, M5G 1N8, Canada
Women Health 41:1-19. 2005....
