Ethnocultural aspects of suicide in young people: A systematic literature review part 2: Risk factors, precipitating agents, and attitudes toward suicide

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 222-237

  Colucci, Erminia ^a,b   Martin, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAUCASIAN; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; JUVENILE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NEGRO; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 34249743210     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2007.37.2.222     Document Type: Review

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