Health

Vol.5 No.3A(2013), Paper ID 29607, 10 pages

DOI:10.4236/health.2013.53A083

 

Case-finding for mental distress in primary health care: An evaluation of the performance of a five-item screening instrument

 

Peter J. Chipimo, Knut Fylkesnes

 

Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
Centre for International Health, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

 

Copyright © 2013 Peter J. Chipimo, Knut Fylkesnes et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Chipimo, P. and Fylkesnes, K. (2013) Case-finding for mental distress in primary health care: An evaluation of the performance of a five-item screening instrument. Health, 5, 627-636. doi: 10.4236/health.2013.53A083.

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