Artículo de revista
Culturally-sensitive complaints of depressions and anxieties in women
Fecha
2007Registro en:
Journal of Affective Disorders, Volumen 102, Issue 1-3, 2018, Pages 159-176
01650327
10.1016/j.jad.2006.09.033
Autor
Halbreich, Uriel
Alarcon, Renato D.
Calil, Helena
Douki, Saida
Gaszner, Peter
Jadresic, Enrique
Jasovic-Gasic, Miroslava
Kadri, Nadia
Kerr-Correa, Florence
Patel, Vikram
Sarache, Xarifa
Trivedi, J. K.
Institución
Resumen
Background: Current classifications of Mental Disorders are centered on Westernized concepts and constructs. "Cross-cultural sensitivity" emphasizes culturally-appropriate translations of symptoms and questions, assuming that concepts and constructs are applicable. Methods: Groups and individual psychiatrists from various cultures from Asia, Latin America, North Africa and Eastern Europe prepared descriptions of main symptoms and complaints of treatment-seeking women in their cultures, which are interpreted by clinicians as a manifestation of a clinically-relevant dysphoric disorder. They also transliterated the expressions of DSM IV criteria of main dysphoric disorders in their cultures. Results: In many non-western cultures the symptoms and constructs that are interpreted and treated as dysphoric disorders are mostly somatic and are different from the Western-centered DSM or ICD systems. In many cases the DSM and ICD criteria of depression and anxieties are not even acknowledged by p