Predicting perceived need for mental health care in a community sample: an application of the self-regulatory model

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1593-1600

  Oexle, Nathalie ^a   Ajdacic Gross, Vladeta ^b   Müller, Mario ^b   Rodgers, Stephanie ^b   Rössler, Wulf ^b,c   Rüsch, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Illness representations; Mental illness; Perceived need; Self regulatory model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942980685     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-015-1085-3     Document Type: Article

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