Attitudes toward obsessive-compulsive disorders - An experimental investigation

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 331-336

  Simonds, Laura M ^a   Thorpe, Susan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Help seeking; Obsessive compulsive; Stigma; Vignette

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SHAME; SOCIAL ASPECT; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEAR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SHAME; STEREOTYPING; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0042477864     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-003-0637-0     Document Type: Article

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