Developing instruments for cross-cultural psychiatric research

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 176, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 257-263

  Flaherty, Joseph A ^a   Moises Gaviria, F ^a   Pathak, Dev ^b   Mitchell, Timothy ^c   Wintrob, Ronald ^d   Richman, Judith A ^a   Birz, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MIGRATION; RESEARCH; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERU; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 0023938295     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198805000-00001     Document Type: Article

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