Mental health first aid for Indigenous Australians: Using Delphi consensus studies to develop guidelines for culturally appropriate responses to mental health problems

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hart, Laura M ^a   Jorm, Anthony F ^a   Kanowski, Leonard G ^a   Kelly, Claire M ^a   Langlands, Robyn L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMUTILATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL VALUE; DEPRESSION; FIRST AID; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOSIS; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DELPHI STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CONSENSUS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; FIRST AID; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 69249134685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-9-47     Document Type: Article

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