Attitudes towards suicide among medical students: Comparison between Madras (India) and Vienna (Austria)

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 104-110

  Etzersdorfer, E ^a   Vijayakumar, L ^b   Schony W ^c   Grausgruber, A ^d   Sonneck, G ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medical School of Madras   (India)

^c KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^d JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^e LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; EUROPE; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; INDIA; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MOTIVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL VALUES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 0031888207     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050029     Document Type: Article

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