Sentence examples for indigenous measures from inspiring English sources

This study has implications for emic and etic approaches in vocational interest research and can a serve as a prototype for the development of indigenous measures and models for use in career counseling.

A still greater problem is that typically there are almost no local research findings that people can use to develop their own indigenous measures they design from the outset to address the conditions in their own specific cultural and political contexts.

Our indigenous measure showed a moderate level of concordance with the CIDI amongst the Vietnamese-immigrants, but at the same time identified cases not detected by that measure [ 7].

Although adding an indigenous measure means that assessment protocols are not strictly commensurable across cultures, this strategy offers the advantage of ensuring that prevalence rates are not under-estimated through using only Western-derived measures, particularly amongst populations from East Asia [ 22, 44].

The rebels have also demanded the adoption of the indigenous rights measures, agreed to in negotiations between the rebels and the government in 1996.

What is currently lacking from the Pakistani mental health literature is a study that compares the screening ability of any Western instrument measuring anxiety and depression with that of an indigenous scale measuring the same construct.

HSCL-10 has shown good screening abilities in a rural setting in Pakistan, and moderate to good concordance with an indigenous instrument measuring psychological distress.

Among women, 37% were recorded as indigenous on both measures, and 47% were recorded as ladino on both measures.

One reason the health education program worked so well was that it was in many ways consistent with indigenous epidemic control measures (isolation, suspension of greetings, dances, public funerals).

Results indicated that Acholi people used at least three explanatory models to explain and respond to the outbreak; indigenous epidemic control measures were often implemented and consistent with those being promoted by healthcare workers; and some cultural practices amplified the outbreak (e.g., burial practices).

** Further analyses showed no statistically significant differences in measures between Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults in Far West NSW.