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Sex differences in professional help seeking among adult black Americans

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  1. The School of Public Health (Community Mental Health Program) and Institute for Social Research (Survey Research Center), University of Michigan, 109 South Observatory, Room M-5134, 48109, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Harold W. Neighbors & Cleopatra S. Howard

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Research for this paper was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (Division of Clinical Research, Prevention Research Branch and the Division of Biometry and Applied Sciences, Minority Research Resources Branch). The authors thank James Jackson, Joseph Veroff, Clifford Broman, Lois Vergbrugge, and two anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript.

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Neighbors, H.W., Howard, C.S. Sex differences in professional help seeking among adult black Americans. Am J Commun Psychol 15, 403–417 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00915210

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