Evaluating stigma against mental disorder and related factors

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 558-566

  Tanaka, Goro ^a   Inadomi, Hiroyuki ^a   Kikuchi, Yasuki ^a   Ohta, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Educational program; Evaluation research; Prejudice; Public attitudes towards mental disorder; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALIENATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL DEPRIVATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WELFARE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AWARENESS; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

EID: 7944222674     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2004.01300.x     Document Type: Article

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