Nerves Is a General Term to Refer to a Culturally

question 53

Multiple Choice

Nerves is a general term to refer to a culturally acceptable way of describing psychosocial distress to family and health professionals.In Canada nerves have been studied among

• A)middle-aged women from Newfoundland,and Greek immigrant women in Montreal.
• B)Hutterite women of Manitoba.
• C)middle-aged Ojibwa women from northeastern Canada.
• D)middle aged Cree women in northeastern Quebec.
• E)Inuit and other subarctic First Nations groups.

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