U.S. Cambodian refugees' use of complementary and alternative medicine for mental health problems

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1212-1218

  Berthold, S Megan ^a,b   Wong, Eunice C ^a   Schell, Terry L ^a   Marshall, Grant N ^a   Elliott, Marc N ^a   Takeuchi, David ^c   Hambarsoomians, Katrin ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Program for Torture Victims   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REFUGEE; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 34848827932     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2007.58.9.1212     Document Type: Article

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