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Research Article

How mental health literacy and experience of mental illness relate to stigmatizing attitudes and social distance towards people with depression or psychosis: A cross-sectional study

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Pages 309-313 | Received 17 Apr 2015, Accepted 13 Oct 2015, Published online: 07 Dec 2015

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