title: Assessment of depression in Kuwait by principal component analysis.
abstract: One hundred depressed inpatients were examined by the WHO schedule for Standardized Assessment of Depressive Disorders (SADD). A common core of symptoms is shared with patients in other studies from Western, Middle-Eastern and international studies. However, pathoplastic cultural influences are manifest in a number of symptoms, notable among which are metaphorical descriptions of symptom intensity by the overwhelmed patient, infrequency of feelings of hopelessness and suicidal attempts, masking of guilt feelings by a front of somatization and a linkage of body weight and sexual functions to health in general. Evidence is provided for a continuum-type unimodal distribution of the principal components studied.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuwait, Safat.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: el-Islam
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Moussa
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Malasi
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Suleiman
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Mirza
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007730:Kuwait; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics