@article{ref1,
title="Reflections on masculinity, culture and the diagnosis of depression",
journal="Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry",
year="2007",
author="Mellsop, Graham and Smith, Barry",
volume="41",
number="10",
pages="850-853",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To inform the debate on the relationship between gender and depression by examining clinicians' ratings on selected HoNos items in two cultural groups. METHOD: Scores on items 1 (overactivity/aggression) and 2 (depression) as recorded by clinicians in the CAOS study of more than 12,000 unselected New Zealand psychiatric service users were analysed by gender and self identified ethnicity. RESULTS: The lowest ratings for depression and highest for overactivity/agression were assigned to Māori males. Female Māori, were rated next, followed by male non-Māori. Female non-Māori were rated highest on depression and lowest on overactivity/agression. CONCLUSIONS: Amongst the hypotheses to explain these findings are those relating to service utilization, rater bias, criteria bias, and cultural pathoplastic effects. These questions need answers.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0004-8674",
doi="10.1080/00048670701579082",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048670701579082"
}