Baksbat (broken courage): the development and validation of the inventory to measure baksbat, a Cambodian trauma-based cultural syndrome of distress.

This article outlines the development and validation of an inventory measuring a Cambodian cultural syndrome of distress called 'baksbat' (broken courage). The inventory development phase involved ethnographic interviews with a preliminary group of 53 experts having knowledge or experience of baksba...

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Published in:Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 640 - 660
Main Authors: Chhim S, Chhim, Sotheara
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2012
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