Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 2 , Pages 198-205, February 2010

Encouraging patients with depressive symptoms to seek care: A mixed methods approach to message development

  • Robert A. Bell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
    • Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
    • Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Communication, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Tel.: +1 530 752 1221; fax: +1 530 752 6705.
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  • Debora A. Paterniti

      Affiliations

    • Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
    • Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
    • Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA
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  • Rahman Azari

      Affiliations

    • Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
    • Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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  • Paul R. Duberstein

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Personality and Development, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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  • Ronald M. Epstein

      Affiliations

    • Rochester Center for the Improvement of Communication in Health Care, Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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  • Aaron B. Rochlen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
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  • Megan Dwight Johnson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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  • Sharon E. Orrange

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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  • Christina Slee

      Affiliations

    • Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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  • Richard L. Kravitz

      Affiliations

    • Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
    • Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA

Received 9 February 2009; received in revised form 24 June 2009; accepted 9 July 2009. published online 12 August 2009.

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PII: S0738-3991(09)00267-5

doi:10.1016/j.pec.2009.07.007

Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 2 , Pages 198-205, February 2010