The assessment of depression awareness and help-seeking behaviour: Experiences with the International Depression Literacy Survey

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hickie AM, Ian B ^a   Davenport, Tracey A ^a   Luscombe, Georgina M ^a   Rong, Ye ^a   Hickie, Megan L ^a   Bell, Morag I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; AWARENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; ETHNICITY; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL HEALTH; PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; ASIAN; AUSTRIA; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRIA; AWARENESS; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 36348999845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-7-48     Document Type: Article

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