Malaysian Moslem mothers' experience of depression and service use

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 443-467

  Kadir, Nor Ba'yah Abdul ^a   Bifulco, Antonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Malaysia; Moslem women; Services

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CASE REPORT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALAYSIA; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MOTHER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SUICIDAL IDEATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ISLAM; MALAYSIA; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MOTHERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL VALUES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SPIRITUAL THERAPIES; SPIRITUALITY; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

EID: 77955341555     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-010-9183-x     Document Type: Article

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