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Depression in first generation labour migrants in Western Europe
— the utility of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) | | Author(s) | J Spijker, F B van der Wurff, E C Poort |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 19, no 6, June 2004 |
| Pages | pp 538-544 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Immigrants ; Turkey ; Morocco ; Depression ; Evaluation ; Arabic language ; Turkish language ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | The number of older migrants of Turkish and Moroccan descent in Western Europe will increase sharply in the next decades. Identifying those who are depressed necessitates a screening instrument that is both acceptable and has good psychometric properties. This study examines the utility of Turkish and Arabic translations of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) in older labour migrants of Turkish and Moroccan descent in the Netherlands. Data were derived from a community-based health survey of 304 native Dutch, 330 Turkish and 299 Moroccan migrants aged 55-75 living in Amsterdam. Acceptability of the CES-D was satisfactory, although Moroccan migrants and Turkish females had difficulty answering one or more of the (interpersonal) items from the CES-D. The utility of the Turkish and Arabic translations of the CES-D was found to be satisfactory for both Turkish and Moroccan older people. This fits the hypothesis that Turkish and Moroccan older migrants tend to somatize their depressive symptoms much more than their native Western counterparts. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040720203 A |
| Classmark | TJ: 7GB: 7JC: ENR: 4C: 6X8: 6WX: 76H |
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