Barriers to mental health service utilisation in Sudan - perspectives of carers and psychiatrists

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• 作者：Sara H. Ali ; Vincent I. O. Agyapong
• 关键词：Barriers ; Mental health ; Utilization ; Sudan
• 刊名：BMC Health Services Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：489 KB
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• 作者单位：Sara H. Ali (1) (2)
  Vincent I. O. Agyapong (2) (3) (4)
  
  1. Department of Psychiatry, St Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
  2. Centre for Global Health, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
  3. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  4. Department of Behavioural Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
  
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Health Administration; Health Informatics; Nursing Management/Nursing Research;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6963

文摘

Background In order to scale up mental health care nationally, barriers to health services utilisation need to be identified and addressed. Aim: The aim of this study was to identify barriers to mental health services utilization in Sudan from the perspectives of carer’s of mentally ill patients and psychiatrists and to make recommendations to address the identified barriers.