Effect of gender on suicide attempters versus nonattempters in an adolescent inpatient unit

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 90-97

  Fennig, Silvana ^a,b   Geva, Keren ^a   Zalzman, Gil ^a,b,c   Weitzman, Abraham ^b,c   Fennig, Shmuel ^a,b,d   Apter, Alan ^a,b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d SHALVATA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; DESTRUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EGO; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; INVENTORY CONTROL; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 13844298743     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.07.037     Document Type: Article

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