Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Volume 107, Issue 12 , Pages 921-931 , December 2008

Non-psychiatric Physicians' Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior Toward Depression

  • Shen-Ing Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Shen-Ing Liu, Department of Psychiatry, Mackay Memorial Hospital, 45 Ming-Shan Road, Chu-Wei, Tam-Shui, Taipei 251, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ru-Band Lu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng-Kung University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng-Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ming-Been Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Received 10 October 2007 ,Revised 8 February 2008 ,Accepted 6 June 2008.

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PII: S0929-6646(09)60015-2

doi: 10.1016/S0929-6646(09)60015-2

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Volume 107, Issue 12 , Pages 921-931 , December 2008

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