the assessment of depression awareness and help-seeking behaviour experiences with the international depression literacy survey抑郁症的评估意识和求助行为的经验与国际抑郁素养调查.pdf

BMC Psychiatry BioMed Central Research article Open Access The assessment of depression awareness and help-seeking behaviour: experiences with the International Depression Literacy Survey 1 1 1 2 Ian B Hickie AM* , Tracey A Davenport , Georgina M Luscombe , Ye Rong , 1 1 Megan L Hickie and Morag I Bell Address: 1Brain Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia and 2Discipline of Psychological Medicine, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Email: Ian B Hickie AM* - ianh@.au; Tracey A Davenport - tdavenport@.au; Georgina M Luscombe - gluscomb@.au; Ye Rong - yrong@.au; Megan L Hickie - megan_22886@; Morag I Bell - mbell@.au * Corresponding author Published: 13 September 2007 Received: 20 December 2006 Accepted: 13 September 2007 BMC Psychiatry 2007, 7:48 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-7-48 This article is available from: /1471-244X/7/48 © 2007 Hickie AM et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Depression causes substantial disease burden in both developed and developing countries. To reduce this burden, we need to promote understanding of depression as a major health condition