A theoretical and empirical framework for constructing culture-specific stigma instruments for Chile

• Main Authors: Lawrence H. Yang (Author), Elie Valencia (Author), Ruben Alvarado (Author), Bruce Link (Author), Nina Huynh (Author), Kristy Nguyen (Author), Kara Morita (Author), Mariella Saavedra (Author), Chak Wong (Author), Sandro Galea (Author), Ezra Susser (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Different cultural contexts contribute to substantial variation in the stigma faced by people with psychosis globally. We propose a new formulation of how culture affects stigma to create psychometrically-validated tools to assess stigma's culture-specific effects. We propose to construct cultu...