An evaluation of crisis hotline outcomes part 2: Suicidal callers

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 338-352

  Gould, Madelyn S ^a,b   Kalafat, John ^c   HarrisMunfakh, Jimmie Lou ^b   Kleinman, Marjorie ^b  

^a Department of Epidemiology ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; IDENTITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TELEPHONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HOTLINES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 34250837954     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2007.37.3.338     Document Type: Article

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