Nigerian secondary school children's knowledge of and attitudes to mental health and illness

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 336-353

  Dogra, Nisha ^a   Omigbodun, Olayinka ^b   Adedokun, Tunde ^b   Bella, Tolulope ^c   Ronzoni, Pablo ^a   Adesokan, Adekunle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

attitudes to mental illness; Nigerian; schoolchildren; stigma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NIGERIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL STIGMA; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NIGERIA; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL STIGMA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84863648416     PISSN: 13591045     EISSN: 14617021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359104511410804     Document Type: Article

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