To seek advice or not to seek advice about the problem: The help-seeking dilemma for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 257-264

  Belloch, Amparo ^a   Valle, Gema ^b   Morillo, Carmen ^c   Carrió, Carmen ^b   Cabedo, Elena ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Mental Health Outpatient Clinic   (Spain)

^c Agencia Valenciana de Salud   (Spain)

^d Mental Health Outpatient Clinic   (Spain)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Insight; Obsessions; Obsessive compulsive disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONSULTATION; CONTROL STRATEGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CONTROL; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THINKING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63949084698     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0423-0     Document Type: Article

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