Do 'alternative' help-seeking strategies affect primary care service use? A survey of help-seeking for mental distress
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Do 'alternative' help-seeking strategies affect primary care service use? A survey of help-seeking for mental distress
BACKGROUND Epidemiological studies suggest that only some distressed individuals seek help from primary care and that pathways to mental health care appear to be ethnically patterned. However few research studies examine how people with common mental disorder manage their mental distress, which help-seeking strategies they employ and whether these are patterned by ethnicity? This study investig...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-207