High income, employment, postgraduate education, and marriage: A suicidal cocktail among psychiatric patients

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1377-1384

  Agerbo, Esben ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVORCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCOME; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL PATIENT; PENSION; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; WIDOW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCOME; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36849089635     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.64.12.1377     Document Type: Article

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