Annals of Family Medicine 3:38-46 (2005)
© 2005 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
doi: 10.1370/afm.273
Beliefs and Attitudes Associated With the Intention to Not Accept the Diagnosis of Depression Among Young Adults
Benjamin W. Van Voorhees, MD, MPH1,
Joshua Fogel, PhD2,
Thomas K. Houston, MD, MPH3,
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH4,5,6,
Nae-Yuh Wang, PhD4 and
Daniel E. Ford, MD, MPH4,5,6,7
1 Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill
2 Business Program, Department of Economics, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY
3 Department of Medicine and the Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Ala
4 Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md
5 Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Baltimore, Md
6 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md
7 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md

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Figure 1. Theory of reasoned action and intention not to accept the diagnosis of depression.
Theory of reasoned action adapted from: Hagger MS, Chatzisarantis NL, Biddle, SJ. A meta-analytic review of the theories of reasoned action and planned behavior in physical activity; predictive validity and the contribution of additional variables.
J Sport Exer Psychol. 2002; 24:33228; and Howland MJ. Examining the decision to seek professional psychological help; a comparison of attribution and attitude theory in predicting help-seeking intention using the theory of reasoned action. U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ill; 1997.27
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Figure 2. Percentage of theory of reasoned action model variance explained by model factors.
Note: Percentage of explained model variance calculated from the pseudo-R2 contributed by each group of variable defined by the theory of reasoned action.
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