Sociopsychological factors relating to suicide prevention in a Japanese rural community: Coping behaviors and attitudes toward depression and suicidal ideation

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 676-686

  Sakamoto, Shinji ^a   Tanaka, Eriko ^b   Neichi, Keiko ^c   Sato, Kyoko ^c   Ono, Yutaka ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Nambu Town Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attitude; Community survey; Depression; Prevention; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGEISM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 33750952688     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01582.x     Document Type: Article

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