food safety is among the important and remarkable subjects which is considered fundamental and a basic need of individuals and society so that lack of food or nutritional disorders has serious consequences and worrying reflections. this paper aims to measure nutritional disorders among female citizens of tabriz and intends to identify social and cultural factors affecting it. survey method was ...

Anxiety disorders, including panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and separation anxiety disorder, are the most prevalent mental disorders and are associated with immense health care costs and a high burden of disease. According to large population-based surveys, up to 33.7% of the population are affected by an anxi...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder and the Japanese condition known as taijin kyofusho are classified as 'anxiety disorders' by US and Japanese psychiatrists. While members of the biomedical community might prefer to see this as evidence of a human universal, the similarity between the two is not primarily biological, but cultural and developmental. Both disorders develop out of a conflict between o...

Changes incorporated into the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) include a number of features designed to enhance its cross-cultural applicability. However, the overt move toward a culture-sensitive nosology is undermined by an implicit assumption of the universality of its primary syndromes. In this revie...

The cross-cultural validity of dissociative possession and trance disorders is a matter of some debate, limiting research and meaningful interpretation of prevalence data. Intimate to these concerns is the status of spirit possession categories studied in the social sciences, particularly anthropology. These two categories are phenomenologically related and display similar epidemiological assoc...

BACKGROUND Burgeoning global mental health endeavors have renewed debates about cultural applicability of psychiatric categories. This study's goal is to review strengths and limitations of literature comparing psychiatric categories with cultural concepts of distress (CCD) such as cultural syndromes, culture-bound syndromes, and idioms of distress. METHODS The Systematic Assessment of Qualit...