The delay between symptom onset and seeking professional treatment for anxiety and depressive disorders in a rural Australian sample

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1475-1487

  Green, Amanda C ^a   Hunt, Caroline ^a   Stain, Helen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Depressive disorders; Help seeking; Rural

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AUSTRALIA; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866737912     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-011-0453-x     Document Type: Article

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