Coping with auditory hallucinations: A cross-cultural comparison between western (British) and non-Western (Saudi Arabian) patients

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 185, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 664-668

  Wahass, Saeed ^a   Kent, Gerry ^b  

^a IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0030774085     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199711000-00002     Document Type: Article

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