Racial and ethnic disparities in mental illness stigma

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 195, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1020-1023

  Rao, Deepa ^a,b   Feinglass, Joseph ^b   Corrigan, Patrick ^c  

^a Institute for Healthcare Studies   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Illinois Institute of Psychology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Intervention; Mental illness; Race; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; CAUCASIAN; COLLEGE STUDENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIGMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHICAGO; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREJUDICE; STUDENTS;

EID: 37349113816     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31815c046e     Document Type: Article

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