Illness causal beliefs in Turkish immigrants

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Minas, Harry ^a,b   Klimidis, Steven ^a,b   Tuncer, Can ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Vic Transcultural Psychiatry Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DISEASE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TURKEY;

EID: 34548429755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-7-34     Document Type: Article

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