Awareness and attitudes of a rural Ethiopian community toward suicidal behaviour a key informant study in Butajira, Ethiopia

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 100, Issue SUPPL.S397, 1999, Pages 65-69

  Alem, A ^a   Jacobsson, L ^b   Kebede, D ^c   Kullgren, G ^b  

^a Amanuel Psychiatric Hospital   (Ethiopia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Ethiopia; Ethnicity; Suicide attempt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; RELIGIOUS GROUP; RURAL POPULATION; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 0032804973     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: 16000447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1999.tb10696.x     Document Type: Article

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