Ethnic and migrational impact on the clinical manifestation of depression

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1121-1129

  Deisenhammer, Eberhard A ^a   Çoban Başaran, Müberra ^a   Mantar, Atil ^b   Prunnlechner, Regina ^a   Kemmler, Georg ^a   Alkin, Tunç ^b   Hinterhuber, Hartmann ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Culture; Depression; Ethnicity; Migration; Minority; Somatization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863781524     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-011-0417-1     Document Type: Article

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