Ethnocultural differences in prevalence of adolescent suicidal behaviors

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 208-217

  Roberts, Robert E ^a,b,c   Chen, Y Richard ^b   Roberts, Catherine R ^b  

^a School of Public Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MINORITY GROUPS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TEXAS; VIETNAM;

EID: 0030758583     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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