Prevalence and Illness Beliefs of Sleep Paralysis among Chinese Psychiatric Patients in China and the United States

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 135-145

  Yeung, Albert ^a   xu, Yong ^b   Chang, Doris F ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZHONGSHAN HOSPITAL OF FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; primary care; sleep paralysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHINESE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; OUTPATIENT; PANIC; PARASOMNIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; SICK ROLE; SLEEP PARALYSIS; SPIRITUALISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16344384011     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461505050725     Document Type: Article

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