Effects of labeling and interpersonal contact upon attitudes towards schizophrenia: Implications for reducing mental illness stigma in urban China

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1459-1473

  Yang, Lawrence H ^a   Lo, Graciete ^b   WonPat Borja, Ahtoy J ^a   Singla, Daisy R ^c   Link, Bruce G ^a   Phillips, Michael R ^d,e  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; China; Culture; Schizophrenia; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866729417     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-011-0452-y     Document Type: Article

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