Differential item functioning between ethnic groups in the epidemiological assessment of depression

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 297-306

  Breslau, Joshua ^a   Javaras, Kristin N ^b   Blacker, Deborah ^b,c   Murphy, Jane M ^b,c   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Depression; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Measurement

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42249114027     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31816a490e     Document Type: Article

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