Comparing the stigma of mental illness in a general hospital with a state mental hospital: A Singapore study

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 648-653

  Chee, Cornelia Y I ^a   Ng, Tze Pin ^b   Kua, Ee Heok ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Psychiatric illness; Singapore; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; OUTPATIENT CARE; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SHAME; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SINGAPORE; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 24944486005     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0932-z     Document Type: Article

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