Background: In psychiatry, stigma is an attitude of disapproval towards people with mental
illnesses. Psychiatric disorders are common in Asia but some Asians receive inadequate …

Immigrants are at greater risk for mental health concerns but are less likely to use mental
health services than their US-born counterparts. Efforts to understand these disparities have …

Objective Understanding the general public's beliefs about depression is essential if public
education and anti-stigma interventions are to be effective. This study aimed to examine …

This study utilized Andersen's model of health behavior to explore factors associated with
mental health service utilization. We also examine rates for mental health service use …

Stigma towards mental illness and addictive disorders is a global problem and one of the
main obstacles in tackling this issue remains the effective integration of mental health …

Stigma of major depressive disorder (MDD) is an important public health problem. This study
aimed to examine the level of perceived stigma and its associated factors in MDD patients in …

Patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) have fewer treatment options and worse
prognoses than those without TRD. Although the etiology or pathophysiology of TRD …

Purpose: The objective of this study was to explore the perspectives of postpartum
depression (PPD) and mental health help-seeking behaviors among Chinese American …

Stigma and discrimination in psychotic illness has not been robustly studied in those
presenting with their first episode of psychosis (FEP). We prospectively examined patterns of …

Objective: To determine the quality of life of caregivers of patients with psychiatric illness on
follow up in public hospitals providing outpatient psychiatric services in Penang, Malaysia …