Prevalence of sleep disorders in medical trainees

Culture-bound Syndrome: The Enigmatic Contingency in Clinical Epidemiology

“…Individuals with epilepsy within the Hmong culture are a source of pride for their family. 13 Another type of culture bound illness remains neurasthenia-a vaguely described medical ailment in Chinese culture that presents as lassitude, weariness, headaches, and irritability and is mostly linked to emotional disturbance. Aback in 1942 a report revealed 87% of such patients diagnosed by Chinese psychiatrists as having neurasthenia.…”