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A Study of Depression in Two Cultures: A Transcultural Study with Japanese and Australian Clinically Depressed Patients
Author(s) -
Radford Mark,
Nakane Yoshibumi,
Ohta Yasuyuki,
Mann Leon,
Kalucy Ross
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1989.tb02559.x
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , feeling , clinical psychology , psychology , psychiatry , depressive symptoms , cross cultural studies , medicine , cognition , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
Recently there has emerged a growing interest in transcultural aspects of depressive disorders. Unlike earlier studies, recent research has concentrated on using standardized assessment and evaluation procedures in an effort to reduce “differences” associated with research techniques. The following paper reports a study which, using the WHO developed Standardized Assessment of Depressive Disorders (WHO/SADD) schedule, examines the nature of depressive symptomatology in Australian and Japanese clinically depressed patients. While results supported the presence of a “symptom core” common to both cultures, some unexpected findings in relation to “feelings of guilt” and “severity of depression” were noted.