Khat use among Somali mental health service users in South London

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1649-1656

  Tulloch, Alex D ^a   Frayn, Elizabeth ^a   Craig, Thomas K J ^a   Nicholson, Timothy R J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catha; Cross sectional studies; Hospitals; Mental disorders; Mental health services; Psychiatric; Somalia

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT LEAF; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMALIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CATHA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONDON; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT LEAVES; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSES, SUBSTANCE-INDUCED; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOMALIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866743826     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-011-0471-8     Document Type: Article

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