Knowledge about suicide and local suicide prevalence: Comparison of Estonia and Austria

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-7

  Kõlves, Kairi ^a   Tran, Ulrich S ^b   Voracek, Martin ^b  

^a Estonian Centre of Behavioral and Health Sciences   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICS; STUDENT; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOLOGY; STUDENTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 34548530790     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.105.1.3-7     Document Type: Article

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