How the relationship of attitudes toward mental health treatment and service use differs by age, gender, ethnicity/race and education

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-57

  Gonzalez, Jodi M ^a   Alegría, Margarita ^b,c   Prihoda, Thomas J ^a   Copeland, Laurel A ^a,d   Zeber, John E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d VERDICT a HSR and D Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Ethnicity; Health services; Help seeking; Race

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79251607839     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0168-4     Document Type: Article

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