Ethno-psychometric evaluation of the General Health Questionnaire in rural China

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 249-255

  Lee, Dominic T S ^a,b   Yip, Winnie C M ^c   Chen, Yenfong ^d   Meng, Qingyue ^e   Kleinman, Arthur ^a,f  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BEIJING HUILONGGUAN HOSPITAL   (China)

^e SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOSIS; RELIABILITY; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHINA; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 31144461406     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291705006434     Document Type: Article

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