Public knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards patients with schizophrenia: Buenos Aires

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 281-290

  Leiderman, Eduardo Adrian ^a   Vazquez, Gustavo ^a   Berizzo, Candela ^a   Bonifacio, Ana ^a   Bruscoli, Noelia ^a   Capria, Juan I ^a   Ehrenhaus, Betina ^a   Guerrero, Manuel ^a   Guerrero, Maria ^a   Lolich, Maria ^a   Milev, Roumen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Mental health literacy; Schizophrenia; Social distance; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL DISTANCE; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956013721     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0196-0     Document Type: Article

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