Risk Factors for Adolescent Suicide: A Comparison of Adolescent Suicide Victims With Suicidal Inpatients

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 581-588

  Brent, David A ^a   Perper, Joshua A ^b   Goldstein, Charles E ^a   Kolko, David J ^a   Allan, Marjorie J ^a   Allman, Christopher J ^a   Zelenak, Janice P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; FAMILY; FATALITY; FIREARM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOOD DISORDERS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023927321     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1988.01800300079011     Document Type: Article

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