Improved attitudes to psychiatry: A global mental health peer-to-peer E-learning partnership

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 659-666

  Keynejad, Roxanne ^a   Garratt, Elisabeth ^b   Adem, Gudon ^c   Finlayson, Alexander ^d   Whitwell, Susannah ^e   Sheriff, Rebecca Syed ^e,f  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Hargeisa Group Hospital   (Somalia)

^d Medicine Africa   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes to psychiatry; E learning; Global mental health; Peer education; Stigma

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; ENGLAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHIATRY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STIGMA; UNIVERSITY; ADULT; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; MANPOWER; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOMALIA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TEACHING; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; PEER GROUP; PSYCHIATRY; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOMALIA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978087216     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: 15457230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-014-0206-8     Document Type: Article

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