Association between degrees of social defeat and themes of delusion in patients with schizophrenia from immigrant and ethnic minority backgrounds

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 735-749

  li, Danni ^a   Law, Samuel ^a   Andermann, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

delusion; ethnic minority; immigrants; schizophrenia; social defeat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL DEFEAT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; DELUSIONS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; ONTARIO; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84869005121     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461512464625     Document Type: Article

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