Population level mental distress in rural Ethiopia
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Population level mental distress in rural Ethiopia
BACKGROUND As part of a situational analysis for a research programme on the integration of mental health care into primary care (Programme for Improving Mental Health Care-PRIME), we conducted a baseline study aimed at determining the broad indicators of the population level of psychosocial distress in a predominantly rural community in Ethiopia. METHODS The study was a population-based cros...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Psychiatry
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244x-14-194