Cross-cultural use of the predetermined scale cutoff points in refugee mental health research

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 248-250

  Ichikawa, Masao ^a   Nakahara, Shinji ^a   Wakai, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross cultural comparison; Psychiatric status rating scales; Refugee; Validity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AFGHANISTAN; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; JAPAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REFERENCE VALUES; REFUGEES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33645223706     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0016-2     Document Type: Article

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