“Developing culturally sensitive affect scales for global mental health research and practice: Emotional balance, not named syndromes, in Indian Adivasi subjective well-being”

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue , 2017, Pages 174-183

  Snodgrass, Jeffrey G ^a   Lacy, Michael G ^a   Upadhyay, Chakrapani ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Government Postgraduate College   (India)

Author keywords

Cultural syndromes; Global mental health; Idioms of distress; India; Medical anthropology; Psychiatric nosology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURE; ETHNOGRAPHY; GLOBALIZATION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL SYNDROME; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; NATIVE SPECIES; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCHEDULE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; VALIDITY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DEVICES; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; GLOBAL HEALTH; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; STANDARDS;

INDIA; MADHYA PRADESH; RAJASTHAN;

ADULT; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 85022054130     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.06.037     Document Type: Article

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