COMPARISON OF SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF DEPRESSION BETWEEN INDIA AND U.S.A.

Keeping in mind the shortcomings of previous transcultural studies on depression, we have compared in detail the symptomatology of depression, between samples from India and U.S.A. taking them to be representatives of eastern and western cultures respectively. Symptoms of fifty patients from India a...

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Autores principales: Derasari, Sohan, Shah, V.D.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1988
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927298
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description Keeping in mind the shortcomings of previous transcultural studies on depression, we have compared in detail the symptomatology of depression, between samples from India and U.S.A. taking them to be representatives of eastern and western cultures respectively. Symptoms of fifty patients from India are compared with the same set of symptoms of sixty four patients of depression reported from U.S.A. The core symptoms were similar in both the samples. Many interesting differences as well as similarities are found between the two samples.
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spelling pubmed-30100392011-09-16 COMPARISON OF SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF DEPRESSION BETWEEN INDIA AND U.S.A. Derasari, Sohan Shah, V.D. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Keeping in mind the shortcomings of previous transcultural studies on depression, we have compared in detail the symptomatology of depression, between samples from India and U.S.A. taking them to be representatives of eastern and western cultures respectively. Symptoms of fifty patients from India are compared with the same set of symptoms of sixty four patients of depression reported from U.S.A. The core symptoms were similar in both the samples. Many interesting differences as well as similarities are found between the two samples. Medknow Publications 1988 /pmc/articles/PMC3010039/ /pubmed/21927298 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title COMPARISON OF SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF DEPRESSION BETWEEN INDIA AND U.S.A.
title_full COMPARISON OF SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF DEPRESSION BETWEEN INDIA AND U.S.A.
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title_short COMPARISON OF SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF DEPRESSION BETWEEN INDIA AND U.S.A.
title_sort comparison of symptomatology of depression between india and u.s.a.
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