Personality-related factors as predictors of help-seeking for depression: A population-based study applying the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1809-1817

  Schomerus, Georg ^a,b,f   Appel, Katja ^a,c   Meffert, Peter J ^a   Luppa, Melanie ^d   Andersen, Ronald M ^e   Grabe, Hans J ^a,b   Baumeister, Sebastian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b HELIOS Hanseklinikum Stralsund   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Mental illness; Personality traits; Resilience; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; ARTICLE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84885957294     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-012-0643-1     Document Type: Article

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