caa a22 4500 386352186 CHVBK 20180307111837.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0033291700024296 doi S0033291700024296 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0033291700024296 Cheng Tai Ann Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Symptomatology of minor psychiatric morbidity: a crosscultural comparison [Elektronische Daten] [Tai Ann Cheng] The basic symptoms of minor psychiatric morbidity (MPM) reported elsewhere were also found in a community survey in Taiwan. However, differences in the patterns of and manifestations of the symptoms were evident. Contrary to most Western surveys, the prevalence of anxiety (24·7 %) was found to be higher than that of depression (8·3 %) in Taiwan. Possible explanations based on sociocultural characteristics of the Chinese family were proposed. The notion of somatization as a predominant symptom in Chinese neurotic patients advocated by some research workers was not supported in this study. As a result of findings in community cases, it is argued that the importance of somatization has been considerably overemphasized as a factor in the illness behaviour of neurotic cases in Chinese and other cultures, and it is therefore not a culturespecific disease phenomenon. It is also suggested that certain culture-specific neurotic syndromes reported in Chinese, such as shen-ching-shuai-jo (neurasthenia) and shen-k'uei (semen loss syndrome), are clinically equivalent to MPM. Implications of the present findings on crosscultural research and management of MPM were discussed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/3(1989-08), 697-708 0033-2917 19:3<697 1989 19 PSM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700024296 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700024296 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cheng Tai Ann Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/3(1989-08), 697-708 0033-2917 19:3<697 1989 19 PSM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge