As a nurse assesses culture factors with patients, the subculture that poses the greatest risk to a patient's mental health is:
a. Poverty
b. Female gender
c. Advanced age
d. Cultural ethnicity
ANS: A
Many people in poverty suffer discrimination and stigma which places them at risk for de-pression and other anxiety-related illnesses. The other subcultures do not present with the same or greater degree of risk.
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