Attitudes, Practices, and Barriers to Adolescent Suicide and Mental Health Screening: A Survey of Pennsylvania Primary Care Providers

Journal of Primary Care and Community Health

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-35

  Diamond, Guy S ^a   O'Malley, Alana ^a   Wintersteen, Matthew B ^b   Peters, Sherry ^c   Yunghans, Suzanne ^d   Biddle, Virginia ^b   O'Brien, Connell ^e   Schrand, Susan ^f  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS   (United States)

^e Pennsylvania Community Providers Association   (United States)

^f Pennsylvania Coalition of Nurse Practitioners   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescents; mental health; rimary care; screening; suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924660389     PISSN: 21501319     EISSN: 21501327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2150131911417878     Document Type: Article

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