Psychopathology in the Dogon Plateau: An assessment using the QDSM and principal components analysis

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 282-285

  Coppo, P ^b   Reda, M A ^c   Mounkuoro, P P ^b   Carta, M G ^a   Carpiniello, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b Regl Centre of Traditional Medicine   (Mali)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DYSPHORIA; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MALI; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD; NIGHTMARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALI; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0344327056     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050145     Document Type: Article

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