Personality correlates of outpatient mental health service utilization: Findings from the U.S. national comorbidity surver

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 357-363

  McWilliams, Lachlan A ^a   Cox, Brian J ^a   Enns, Murray W ^a   Clara, Ian P ^a  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Outpatient psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LOCUS OF CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MOOD DISORDER; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PERSONALITY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646433449     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-006-0040-8     Document Type: Article

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