Attitudes of the German General Population toward Early Diagnosis of Dementia - Results of a Representative Telephone Survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Luck, Tobias ^a,b   Luppa, Melanie ^a   Sieber, Jennifer ^a   Schomerus, Georg ^c,d   Werner, Perla ^e   König, Hans Helmut ^f   Riedel Heller, Steffi G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d HELIOS Hanseklinikum Stralsund   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DEMENTIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DATA COLLECTION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TELEPHONE; YOUNG ADULT;

PYRONIA TITHONUS;

EID: 84870272355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050792     Document Type: Article

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