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1. Full name: Khann Sareth 2. Sex: Male
3. Date of birth: 20/04/1975 4. Place of birth: Cambodia
5. Admission decision number: 1757/QĐ-ĐHGD, dated 9th, December, 2016
6. Changes in academic process: “Assessing the Validity of Culturally Specific Syndromes in Cambodia” on 11/12/2017
7. Official thesis title: “Mental Health in Cambodian Adolescents: Relationship among Cultural Specific Syndromes, Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, and Functional Impairment”
8. Major: Children and Adolescent Clinical Psychology 9. Code: 9210401.01
10: Supervisors:
a) Desiree M. Seponski, PhD, LMFT, assistant professor
b) Cong Van Tran PhD, lecturer at the University of Education, National University Hanoi and member of Vietnam Association of Psychology and Education (VAPE)
11. Summary of new findings of dissertation:
- The CSSI Cambodian syndromes were positively and significantly associated with depression and anxiety.
- The CSSI syndromes as well as depression and anxiety were positively and significantly associated with functional impairment, quality of life and general health seeking, indicating that these syndromes represent pathology.
- However, and most importantly, the CSSI Cambodian syndromes did not have unique relations with functional impairment, quality of life, and help seeking, indicating that they do not provide additional information about psychopathology in this sample. This means that the culturally specific syndromes do not provide any unique information about “pathology”, at least within the context of these measures and these samples. Conversely, both anxiety and depression had unique relationships with functional impairment, and anxiety had a unique relationship with help seeking behavior. Thus, the Western syndromes do provide unique information about pathology.
12. Practical application: (if any)
Use these findings regardings the CSSI in training of clinical psychology master’s students at the Royal University of Phnom Penh to encourage the new psychologists in the understanding of Khmer psychometric and psychopathology assessment.
13.Future research direction: (if any)
Researchers determine whether culturally specific syndromes among adults have unique relations to psychopathology indicators, in order to determine whether culturally unique casual processes may occur later in humand development.
Conduct similar research among other ethnic groups in Cambodia such as the Cham, in order to determine if there are unique effects for CSSI syndromes among cultural minorities in Cambodia.
Future research should develop cut off scores for the CSSI in order that it can be used for clinical purposes (e.g., to make treatment decisions) within Cambodian culture.
14. Thesis-related publication
Khann, S., Dang, H.M., & Bahr, W. (2019). Predictors of mental health help seeking among Cambodian adolescents. VNU Journal of Science: Education Research, 35(3), 1-10.
Khann, S., Dang, H.M., Bahr, W., Desiree, M. S., Tran, V. C. (2019). The Unique relations of Cambodian somatic symptom and syndrome inventory (CSSI) items with functional impairment among adolescents in Cambodia. The Fifth International Conference on Child Mental Health in Vietnam: Mental Health Literacy in the Schools and Community in Hanoi, Vietnam October 25-26, 2019
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