Cultural, Linguistic and Contextual Factors in Validating the Mental Status Questionnaire: ThE Experience of Aboriginal Elders in Manitoba

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 277-296

  Kaufert, Joseph M ^a   Shapiro, Evelyn ^a  

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EID: 0000664186     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136346159603300302     Document Type: Article

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