How symptom manifestations affect help seeking for mental health problems among Chinese Americans

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-54

  Kung, Winnie W ^a   Lu, Pei Chun ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese Americans; Help seeking; Social disruptiveness; Somatic expression of symptom

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PREVALENCE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHINA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEURASTHENIA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38349054690     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31815fa4f9     Document Type: Article

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