The Present State Examination: Experiences with Xhosa-speaking Psychiatric Patients
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 141 (2), 143-147
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.141.2.143
Abstract
Summary: Language, conceptual, and cultural factors are discussed in relation to a Xhosa translation of the Present State Examination which was administered to a series of 120 consecutive new admissions to a psychiatric hospital.The experiential events of psychiatric disturbance as defined by the PSE exist in Xhosa-speaking patients and it is a valid instrument.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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