Including ethnic minorities in mental health intervention research: A practical approach to a long-standing problem

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 467-486

  Miranda, Jeanne ^a,e,f   Nakamura, Richard ^b,g,h   Bernal, Guillermo ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental health treatments; Minority mental health

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; LANGUAGE; LIFESTYLE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MINORITY GROUP; POLICY; RACE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MINORITY GROUPS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842608469     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MEDI.0000005484.26741.79     Document Type: Review

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