Differences in risk factors for suicidality between African American and white patients vulnerable to suicide

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Vanderwerker, Lauren C ^a   Chen, Joyce H ^b   Charpentier, Peter ^b   Paulk, Mary Elizabeth ^c   Michalski, Marion ^b   Prigerson, Holly G ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 34247538517     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2007.37.1.1     Document Type: Article

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