Yong Xu

Prevalence and illness beliefs of sleep paralysis among Chinese psychiatric patients in China and the United States.

Transcultural Psychiatry March 1, 2005 Albert Yeung, Yong Xu, Doris F Chang

To investigate the prevalence and illness beliefs of sleep paralysis (SP) among Chinese patients in a psychiatric out-patient clinic, consecutive Chinese/Chinese-American patients who attended psychiatric out-patient clinics in Boston and Shanghai were asked about their lifetime prevalence, personal experience and perceptions regarding the causes, precipitating factors, consequences, and...