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Attitudes of Health Care Professionals towards Patients who Take Overdoses

A Hamid Ghodse

St George's Hospital, London

Kamran Ghaffari

St Thomas' Hospital, London

Ashok Vaman Bhat

St Georges's Hospital, London

Abraham Galea

Mount Carmel Hospital, Malta

Y. Hayat Qureshi

Health Education Unit, Valletta, Malta

The attitudes of health care professionals in Malta towards patients who take drug overdoses were studied. It was found that the intention of the overdose had a marked effect on the attitude of the health care professional towards the patients. Differences between different profes sionals were noted and the Maltese results were compared with those of a similar study in London.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 32, No. 4, 58-63 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/002076408603200407
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