Eating disorders mental health literacy in Singapore: Beliefs of young adult women concerning treatment and outcome of bulimia nervosa

Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-46

  Chen, Anna ^a   Mond, Jonathan M ^b   Kumar, Rajeev ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bulimia nervosa; Eating disorder; Mental health literacy; Singapore

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BULIMIA; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH PROMOTION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SELF ESTEEM; SELF HELP; SELF REPORT; SINGAPORE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

BULIMIA NERVOSA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; SINGAPORE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75649130083     PISSN: 17517885     EISSN: 17517893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7893.2009.00156.x     Document Type: Article

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