Keegstra H J
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1986 Jun;73(6):658-64. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1986.tb02740.x.
Fifty-two depressed patients were selected from out-patients at the psychiatric department of St. Paul's Hospital in Addis Ababa. A clinical assessment on each patient was carried out using a slightly revised SADD schedule. The findings were very similar to those from previous SADD studies in different cultures. The same "core" of depressive symptomatology could be detected in Ethiopian depressed patients. Most patients presented with somatic complaints. An interesting finding was that more women than men admitted aggressive feelings or acts. Remarkably few "culture-specific" data were found, which probably is not surprising when using a diagnostic tool with a cultural bias. Suggestions are put forward to explain the difference in frequency of some symptoms in Ethiopian patients compared with patients from other countries.
从亚的斯亚贝巴圣保罗医院精神科门诊挑选出52名抑郁症患者。使用经过略微修订的SADD量表对每位患者进行临床评估。研究结果与之前在不同文化背景下进行的SADD研究结果非常相似。在埃塞俄比亚抑郁症患者中可以检测到相同的抑郁症状“核心”。大多数患者都有躯体不适主诉。一个有趣的发现是，承认有攻击性情绪或行为的女性比男性更多。发现的“文化特异性”数据非常少，使用带有文化偏差的诊断工具时，这可能并不奇怪。文中提出了一些建议来解释埃塞俄比亚患者与其他国家患者在某些症状出现频率上的差异。
