How people get into mental health services: Stories of choice, coercion and 'muddling through' from 'first-timers'

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 275-286

  Pescosolido, Bernice A ^a   Gardner, Carol Brooks ^b   Lubell, Keri M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; RACE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COERCION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIANA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0008459344     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00160-3     Document Type: Article

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