Community attitudes to genetic susceptibility-based mental health interventions for healthy people in a large national sample

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 134, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 280-287

  Wilde, Alex ^a,c   Meiser, Bettina ^b   Mitchell, Philip B ^a,c   Schofield, Peter R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c BLACK DOG INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Genetic risk information; Health behaviours; Major depressive disorder; Primary prevention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; LIFE STRESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUSALITY; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052445505     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2011.06.023     Document Type: Article

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