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The Dubai Community Psychiatric Survey: II. Development of the Socio-cultural Change Questionnaire

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The Dubai Community Psychiatric Survey was carried out to assess the effect of very rapid social change on the mental health of women in Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. In order to measure social change at an individual level, we developed a questionnaire covering behaviour and attitudes in a wide range of situations, the Socio-cultural Change Questionnaire (ScCQ). In this paper we give an account of the considerations that determined the form of the ScCQ, its structural characteristics, and its validity.

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  1. MRC Social and Community Psychiatric Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, SE5 8AF, London, UK

    P. Bebbington, R. Ghubash & E. Hamdi

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Bebbington, P., Ghubash, R. & Hamdi, E. The Dubai Community Psychiatric Survey: II. Development of the Socio-cultural Change Questionnaire. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 28, 60–65 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00802093

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