Culture in psychiatric epidemiology: Using ethnography and multiple mediator models to assess the relationship of caste with depression and anxiety in Nepal

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 261-280

  Kohrt, Brandon A ^a,b   Speckman, Rebecca A ^c   Kunz, Richard D ^d   Baldwin, Jennifer L ^e,f   Upadhaya, Nawaraj ^b   Acharya, Nanda Raj ^b   Sharma, Vidya Dev ^g   Nepal, Mahendra K ^g   Worthman, Carol M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal   (Nepal)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Mental health; Mixed methods; Multiple mediator models; Nepal

Indexed keywords

CASTE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MENTAL HEALTH; RESEARCH WORK; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

ADULT; AGE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NEPAL; PERSONALITY TEST; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ANXIETY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEPAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 67649208487     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014460902839194     Document Type: Article

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