Knowledge of and stigma associated with mental disorders in a South African community sample

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 742-747

  Sorsdahl, Katherine R ^a   Stein, Dan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

advocacy; Mental health literacy; South Africa; stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOUTH AFRICA; STIGMA; ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; AWARENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; STEREOTYPING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958197286     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181f4b2d7     Document Type: Article

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