Illness Beliefs of Depressed Chinese American Patients in Primary Care

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 324-327

  Yeung, Albert ^a,b,d   Chang, Doris ^c   Gresham Jr , Robert L ^a   Nierenberg, Andrew A ^a   Fava, Maurizio ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b South Cove Community Health Center   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY MODEL INTERVIEW CATALOGUE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERVIEW; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RUMINATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SICK ROLE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842528260     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000120892.96624.00     Document Type: Article

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