Sense of coherence and depression in the framework of immigration: Turkish patients in Germany and in Turkey

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 542-549

  Erim, Yesim ^a   Morawa, Eva ^a   Atay, Halil ^b,c   Aygn, Sanem ^a   Gökalp, Peykan ^d   Senf, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Public Hospital   (Germany)

^c Psychotherapist   (Germany)

^d Bakirköy Hospital for Mental Diseases   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; GERMANY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSE OF COHERENCE; TURKEY (BIRD);

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; POPULATION GROUPS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TURKEY;

EID: 84856459149     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2011.637908     Document Type: Article

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