How perceived risk and personal and clinical experience affect medical students' decisions to seek treatment for major depression

Academic Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 876-881

  Nuzzarello, Angela ^a   Goldberg, Julie H ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 4243066340     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200409000-00014     Document Type: Article

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