Community-based suicide prevention through group activity for the elderly successfully reduced the high suicide rate for females

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 337-344

  Oyama, Hirofumi ^a   Watanabe, Naoki ^b   Ono, Yutaka ^c   Sakashita, Tomoe ^a   Takenoshita, Yuka ^d   Taguchi, Manabu ^d   Takizawa, Tohru ^e   Miura, Reiko ^f   Kumagai, Keiko ^f  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Aomori Prefectural Center for Mental Health and Welfare   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Hachinohe Junior College   (Japan)

^f Division of Welfare   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community based intervention; Elderly; Group intervention; Population strategy; Suicide prevention

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUP DYNAMICS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SELF EVALUATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 21244438666     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2005.01379.x     Document Type: Article

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