Exploring the relationship between area characteristics and self-harm: Old and new approaches

Crisis

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 88-91

  Johnston, Amy ^a,b   Cooper, Jayne ^a,c   Kapur, Navneet ^a,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Manchester Self Harm (MaSH) Monitoring Project   (United Kingdom)

^c (MaSH) Project

^d Centre for Suicide Prevention   (United Kingdom)

^e UK National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide   (United Kingdom)

^f GREATER MANCHESTER MENTAL HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area; Intervention; Mental health; Self harm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33746829114     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910.27.2.88     Document Type: Article

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