TY - JOUR
KW - Adaptation, Psychological
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Attitude to Health
KW - Cross-Cultural Comparison
KW - Depressive Disorder
KW - Female
KW - Hospitals, Teaching
KW - Humans
KW - India
KW - Interviews as Topic
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Medicine, Traditional
KW - Mental Health
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Patient Compliance
KW - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
KW - Religion and Psychology
KW - Tinea Versicolor
KW - Vitiligo
AU - Weiss M G
AU - Doongaji D R
AU - Siddhartha S
AU - Wypij D
AU - Pathare S
AU - Bhatawdekar M
AU - Bhave A
AU - Sheth A
AU - Fernandes R
AB - <p>The Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue (EMIC) has been developed to elicit illness-related perceptions, beliefs, and practices in a cultural study of leprosy and mental health in Bombay. Leprosy is an especially appropriate disorder for studying the inter-relationship of culture, mental health and medical illness because of deeply rooted cultural meanings, the emotional burden, and underuse of effective therapy. Fifty per cent of 56 recently diagnosed leprosy out-patients, 37% of 19 controls with another stigmatised dermatological condition (vitiligo), but only 8% of 12 controls with a comparable non-stigmatised condition (tinea versicolor) met DSM-III-R criteria for an axis I depressive, anxiety or somatoform disorder. Belief in a humoral (traditional) cause of illness predicted better attendance at clinic.</p>
BT - The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1617366?dopt=Abstract
CN - WEISS1992
DA - 1992 Jun
DO - 10.1192/bjp.160.6.819
J2 - Br J Psychiatry
LA - eng
N2 - <p>The Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue (EMIC) has been developed to elicit illness-related perceptions, beliefs, and practices in a cultural study of leprosy and mental health in Bombay. Leprosy is an especially appropriate disorder for studying the inter-relationship of culture, mental health and medical illness because of deeply rooted cultural meanings, the emotional burden, and underuse of effective therapy. Fifty per cent of 56 recently diagnosed leprosy out-patients, 37% of 19 controls with another stigmatised dermatological condition (vitiligo), but only 8% of 12 controls with a comparable non-stigmatised condition (tinea versicolor) met DSM-III-R criteria for an axis I depressive, anxiety or somatoform disorder. Belief in a humoral (traditional) cause of illness predicted better attendance at clinic.</p>
PY - 1992
SP - 819
EP - 30
T2 - The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
TI - The Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue (EMIC). Contribution to cross-cultural research methods from a study of leprosy and mental health.
VL - 160
SN - 0007-1250
ER -