The Dubai Community Psychiatric Survey: Acculturation and the Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorder

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 121-131

  Ghubash, R ^a   Hamdi, E ^b   Bebbington, P ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UAE Medical School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DUBAI; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOLOGY;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0028295603     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291700026891     Document Type: Article

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