Suicidal tendencies and attitude towards freedom to choose suicide among Lithuanian schoolchildren: Results from three cross-sectional studies in 1994, 1998, and 2002

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Zemaitiene, Nida ^a   Zaborskis, Apolinaras ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LIFE; LITHUANIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING; SCHOOL CHILD; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SCHOOL; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY, ADOLESCENT; PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STUDENTS; SUICIDE;

EID: 24944542462     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-83     Document Type: Article

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