An Ethnographically Derived Measure of Anxiety, Depression and Somatization: ThE Phan Vietnamese Psychiatric Scale

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 200-232

  Phan, Tuong ^a   Steel, Zachary ^b   Silove, Derrick ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

assessment; cross cultural; emic etic; mental health; Vietnamese

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOMATIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; VIETNAM;

EID: 4043112111     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461504043565     Document Type: Article

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