Mental health literacy and the experience of depression in a community sample of gay men

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 200-207

  Wang, Jen ^a,c   Häusermann, Michael ^b   Weiss, Mitchell G ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Dialogai   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cultural epidemiology; Depression; Help seeking; Homosexuality; Mental health literacy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HOMOSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONELINESS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MENTAL HEALTH; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXISM; SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL REJECTION; SWITZERLAND; VIGNETTE;

CULTURAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; DEPRESSION; HELP-SEEKING; HOMOSEXUALITY; MENTAL HEALTH LITERACY;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84891857306     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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