Focus groups: Implications for primary and cross-cultural psychiatry

Primary Care Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-50

  Bhugra, D ^a   Baldwin, D ^b   Desai, M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asian women; Concepts of depression; Focus groups; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MINORITY GROUP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; RESEARCH; STRESS;

EID: 0030918642     PISSN: 13552570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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