Effects of a multilingual information website intervention on the levels of depression literacy and depression-related stigma in greek-born and Italian-born immigrants living in Australia: A randomized controlled trial

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Kiropoulos, Litza A ^a,b   Griffiths, Kathleen M ^c   Blashki, Grant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depression; Depression literacy; Depression related stigma; Immigrants; Internet based interventions; Randomized control trial

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH LITERACY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL STIGMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INTERNET; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL STIGMA;

EID: 79959935864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1527     Document Type: Article

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