General practitioners pre and post training knowledge and attitude towards psychiatry

Neurosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 287-294

  Qureshi, Naseem A ^a   Van Der Molen, Henk T ^d   Schmidt, Henk G ^d   Al Habeeb, Tariq A ^b   Magzoub, Mohi Eldin M ^c  

^a Buraidah Mental Health Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE QUESTIONNAIRE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE TEST; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DISABILITY; TRAINING;

EID: 6044250162     PISSN: 13196138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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