Preventing elderly suicide through primary care by community-based screening for depression in Rural Japan

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Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 58-65

  Oyama, Hirofumi ^a,f   Goto, Masahiro ^b,g,h   Fujita, Motoi ^c,i   Shibuya, Hiroshi ^d,j   Sakashita, Tomoe ^e,k  

^a AOMORI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Niigata Psychiatric Center   (Japan)

^d National Nishigunma Hospital   (Japan)

^e IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Japanese Task Force for Suicide Prevention ^*  (Japan)

^g Japan Association of Family Therapy   (Japan)

^h Japanese Society of Social Psychiatry   (Japan)

ⁱ Niigata Psychiatric Center   (Japan)

^j Japan Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare   (Japan)

^k RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Community based intervention; Depression screening; Elderly; Primary care; Suicide prevention

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; JAPAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; JAPAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; RISK; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SUICIDE;

EID: 33746823907     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910.27.2.58     Document Type: Article

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