Evaluating community attitudes to people with schizophrenia and mental disorders using a case vignette method

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 96-101

  Tanaka, Goro ^a   Inadomi, Hiroyuki ^a   Kikuchi, Yasuki ^a   Ohta, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Case vignette method; Prejudice; Public attitudes towards mental disorder; Schizophrenia; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE; COMMUNITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL DISORDER PREJUDICE SCALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; PUBLIC OPINION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SHELTERED WORKSHOPS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 14644419496     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2005.01338.x     Document Type: Review

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