Assessment of explanatory models of mental illness: Effects of patient and interviewer characteristics

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-182

  Ghane, Samrad ^a   Kolk, Annemarie M ^a   Emmelkamp, Paul M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethnic minoritie; Explanatory models; Interviewer effect; Match effect; Mental illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHECKLIST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STATISTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNCERTAINTY;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHECKLIST; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; TURKEY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77949356285     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0053-1     Document Type: Article

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