'It puts things out of your control': Fear of consequences as a barrier to patient disclosure of mental health issues to general practitioners

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1059-1074

  Dew, Kevin ^a   Morgan, Sonya ^a   Dowell, Anthony ^a   McLeod, Deborah ^a   Bushnell, John ^b   Collings, Sunny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Doctor patient relationship; Fear; General practice; Mental health; Trust

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEAR; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MENTAL HEALTH; NEW ZEALAND; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIOLOGY;

DISCLOSURE; FEAR; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 37349101030     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01022.x     Document Type: Article

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