Suicide literacy, suicide stigma and help-seeking intentions in Australian medical students

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 132-139

  Chan, Wen I ^a   Batterham, Philip ^a   Christensen, Helen ^b   Galletly, Cherrie ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Medical education; Mental health literacy; Stigma; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL HEALTH; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTGRADUATE STUDENT; STIGMA; STIGMA OF SUICIDE SCALE; SUICIDE; SUICIDE LITERACY; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL STIGMA; STUDENTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SUICIDE; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902274175     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: 14401665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1039856214522528     Document Type: Article

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