Detection of depression in low resource settings: Validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and cultural concepts of distress in Nepal

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kohrt, Brandon A ^a,b   Luitel, Nagendra P ^a   Acharya, Prakash ^a   Jordans, Mark J D ^a,c,d  

^a Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal   (Nepal)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Research and Development   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Cultural concepts of distress; Depression; Global mental health; Low and middle income countries; Screening; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPOSITE INTERNATIONAL DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RURAL AREA; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; MALE; MASS SCREENING; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; STANDARDS; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE); VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; CULTURE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEPAL; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATING;

EID: 85007486788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-016-0768-y     Document Type: Article

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