Life Satisfaction and Suicidal Attempts among Persons with Schizophrenia

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 442-447

  Ponizovsky, Alexander M ^a   Grinshpoon, Alexander ^b   Levav, Itzhak ^b   Ritsner, Michael S ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; ONSET AGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 0242583957     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-440X(03)00146-9     Document Type: Article

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