Medical student attitudes about mental illness: Does medical-school education reduce stigma?

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 197-204

  Korszun, Ania ^a   Dinos, Sokratis ^a   Ahmed, Kamran ^a   Bhui, Kamaldeep ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHINA; CULTURE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84863885067     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.10110159     Document Type: Article

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