Clinical diagnostic and sociocultural dimensions of deliberate self-harm in Mumbai, India

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 223-238

  Parkar, Shubhangi R ^a   Dawani, Varsha ^a   Weiss, Mitchell G ^b  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; SOCIOLOGY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33744469022     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 03630234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2006.36.2.223     Document Type: Article

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