We apply the Colour Family Drawing Test, as a development of the traditional black and white test, for cross-cultural comparison. The participants, aged 7 10 years, both genders, were examined individually. Each subject sat at a single table with a white rectangular card of standard size, 24 well-sharpened colour pencils, a black pencil, an eraser and other appropriate tools. S/he received this...

The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) was translated into 28 languages and administered to 16,998 participants across 53 nations. The RSES factor structure was largely invariant across nations. RSES scores correlated with neuroticism, extraversion, and romantic attachment styles within nearly all nations, providing additional support for cross-cultural equivalence of the RSES. All nations scor...

The Child Feeding Questionnaire (CFQ) assesses parental feeding attitudes, beliefs and practices concerned with child feeding and obesity proneness. The questionnaire has been developed in the U.S., and validation studies in other countries are limited. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the CFQ in Sweden and the associations between parenting practices and chil...

INTRODUCTION We report about the direct short-term effects of a Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-based Medicine (CE-EBM) module on the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of students in the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Universitas Indonesia (UI), and University of Malaya (UM). METHODS We used an adapted version of a 26-item validated questionnaire, including four subscales: knowl...

The co-occurrence of major depression in medical populations has been the subject of much controversy in the past decade. Although some investigators have suggested that reports of an increased prevalence of depression may, in part, be due to misclassification based on physician reliance on self-report methods (Perez-Stable et al. 1990) or on failure to adjust for symptoms induced by physical i...

Racism in the National Health Service: lessons from the past Dr McNaught is right to point out examples of racism in the NHS (December 2004 JRSM1). But what to do about it? Maybe we can learn some lessons from the past. Today there is an over-representation of black people in the mental health system but in the 1960s Irish people were over-represented.2 Psychiatrists thought that the prevalence...

BACKGROUND The use of similar standardised measures of psychopathology for population surveys permits cross-cultural comparisons. However, interpretation of findings can be challenging because rating thresholds may differ across cultures. By combining questionnaire and interview data, we explore whether lower questionnaire scores in Norway as compared to Britain reflect genuine differences in c...