Risk Factors for Suicide in Blacks and Whites: An Analysis of Data from the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 452-458

  Castle, Kathryn ^a   Duberstein, Paul R ^a   Meldrum, Sean ^a   Conner, Kenneth R ^a   Conwell, Yeates ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; THREAT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ACCIDENTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS (U.S.); PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1542283792     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.161.3.452     Document Type: Review

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