Factors distinguishing suicide attempters from suicide ideators in a community sample: Social issues and physical health problems

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1235-1245

  Fairweather, A Kate ^a   Anstey, K J ^a   Rodgers, B ^a   Butterworth, P ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; THINKING;

EID: 33746876010     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291706007823     Document Type: Article

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