Cross-cultural validity of the Amritsar Depression Inventory and the General Health Questionnaire amongst English and Punjabi primary care attenders

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 248-254

  Bhui, K ^a   Bhugra, D ^a   Goldberg, D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEPRESSION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0033939019     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050235     Document Type: Article

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