Cross-cultural attitudes to help-seeking among individuals who are suicidal: new perspective for policy-makers.
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World Mental Health Survey data demonstrate that a high proportion of people who are suicidal receive no treatment and that, contrary to previous assumptions, attitudes to treatment constitute greater barriers to help-seeking than do stigma or structural/financial constraints. We explore how suicide-prevention policy-makers might respond to Bruffaerts et al's findings.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
دوره 199 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011