The Process of Help-Seeking in Anorexia Nervosa: Patients’ Perspective of First Contact With Health Services

Eating Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 206-222

  Gulliksen, Kjersti S ^a   Nordbø, Ragnfrid H S ^a   Espeset, Ester M S ^a   Skårderud, Finn ^b,c   Holte, Arne ^a,b,d  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Regional Eating Disorders Service   (Norway)

^d MODUM BAD PSYCHIATRIC CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFECTION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGIST; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STOMACH PAIN; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927912834     PISSN: 10640266     EISSN: 1532530X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10640266.2014.981429     Document Type: Article

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