Exploration of adverse psychological symptoms in Yemeni khat users by the Symptoms Checklist-90 (SCL-90)

Addiction

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-65

  Numan, Nabil ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Khat; Psychiatric symptoms; SCL 90; Yemeni population

Indexed keywords

CATHA EDULIS EXTRACT;

AGE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG USE; EMPLOYEE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MENTAL STRESS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OCCUPATION; PARANOIA; PATIENT SELECTION; PHOBIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOSIS; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMATIZATION; STUDENT; SYMPTOM; URBAN POPULATION; YEMEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CATHA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT EXTRACTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0742289169     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00570.x     Document Type: Article

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