Too sick, not sick enough?: Effects of treatment type and timing on depression stigma

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 202, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 292-299

  Henshaw, Erin J ^a  

^a DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Help seeking; Stigma; Treatment attitudes; Vignette design

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; STIGMA; TIME TO TREATMENT;

ADULT; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL STIGMA; STEREOTYPING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897580385     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000121     Document Type: Article

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