Attitudes toward psychiatry among final-year medical students in Kumasi, Ghana

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-75

  Laugharne, Richard ^a   Appiah Poku, John ^b   Laugharne, Jon ^c   Shankar, Rohit ^d  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d Cornwall Partnership Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAREER; GHANA; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPAIN; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 64349090877     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.33.1.71     Document Type: Article

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