'Your good days and your bad days' An exploration and consideration of how lay people conceptualize depression

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 851-861

  Hogg, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Mental health; Public health; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82255175163     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: 13652850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2011.01734.x     Document Type: Article

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