Public attitudes toward psychiatric treatment: An international comparison

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 855-864

  Angermeyer, Matthias C ^a   Breier, Peter ^b   Dietrich, Sandra ^a   Kenzine, Denis ^a   Matschinger, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Children University Hospital   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Major depression; Public attitudes; Schizophrenia; Transcultural psychiatry; Treatment

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDITATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAMPLING; SLOVAKIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; YOGA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27944434314     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0958-x     Document Type: Article

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