Users' attitudes towards home and hospital treatment: A comparative study between South Asian and white residents of the British Isles

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 137-146

  Khan, I ^a   Pillay, K ^b  

^a BIRMINGHAM AND SOLIHULL MENTAL HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Home treatment; Hospital treatment; Mental health nursing; Racism; Transcultural nursing

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIET; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY LIFE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PLACE PREFERENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ASPECT; STEREOTYPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CRISIS INTERVENTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CRISIS INTERVENTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0037983048     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2850.2003.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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