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Measuring psychiatric disorder among Southeast Asian refugees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Morton Beiser  and
Jonathan A. E. Fleming
Morton Beiser*
Affiliation:
Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jonathan A. E. Fleming
Affiliation:
Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Canada
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Morton Beiser, Refugee Resettlement Project, Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, 2255 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 2A1.
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Synopsis

Four measures of mental health – Panic, Depression, Somatization and Well-Being – have been developed for use in a population of Southeast Asian refugees. The scales, a product of work with 1348 refugees, demonstrate conceptual significance, good reliability, concurrent validity and stability of structure across samples. They are culturally sensitive, enabling intra-cultural study as well as screening for clinical purposes. The measures also permit comparisons, for research purposes, with non-Asians.

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Research Article
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , August 1986 , pp. 627 - 639
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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