The stigmatization of psychiatric illness: What attitudes do medical students and family physicians hold towards people with mental illness?

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 318-322

  Imran, Nazish ^a   Haider, Imran Ijaz ^b  

^a KING EDWARD MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b FATIMA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Mental illness; Psychiatry; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MANIA; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 34347344001     PISSN: 1682024X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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