The CES-D in Chinese American women: Construct validity, diagnostic validity for major depression, and cultural response bias

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 227-232

  Li, Zhonghe ^a   Hicks, Madelyn Hsiao Rei ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Domestic violence; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Immigrants; Measurement; Mental disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CULTURE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73449143445     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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