Medical students' beliefs and attitudes towards schizophrenia before and after undergraduate psychiatric training in Greece

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-25

  Economou, Marina ^a   Peppou, Lily E ^a   Louki, Eleni ^a   Stefanis, Costas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

attitudes; medical students; mental illness; schizophrenia; stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTIMACY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STIGMA; STEREOTYPY; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRY; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84856004316     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2011.02282.x     Document Type: Article

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