Cultural influences on the prevalence of common mental disorder, general practitioners' assessments and help-seeking among Punjabi and English people visiting their general practitioner

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 815-825

  Bhui, K ^a,b,c   Bhugra, D ^a,b   Goldberg, D ^a,b   Dunn, G ^a,b   Desai, M ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCREENING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ENGLAND; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0034943983     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291701003853     Document Type: Article

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