Treatment seeking for obsessive-compulsive disorder: Role of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms and comorbid psychiatric diagnoses

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 162-168

  Mayerovitch, Jamie I ^b   Galbaud du Fort, Guillaume ^a   Kakuma, Ritsuko ^b   Bland, Roger C ^b   Newman, Stephen C ^b   Pinard, Gilbert ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMORBIDITY; COMPULSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OBSESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEACHING; THOUGHT DISORDER; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0347926317     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/comp.2003.50005     Document Type: Article

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