'No-show' for initial screening at a community mental health centre: Rate, reasons and further help-seeking

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 323-327

  Peeters, F P M L ^a   Bayer, H ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Maastricht Comm Mental Hlth Centre ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING TEST; SOCIAL WORKER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

EID: 0032810066     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050151     Document Type: Article

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