Suicide reporting content analysis: abstract development and reliability

Crisis

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 165-174

  Could, Madelyn S ^a,b   Midle, Jennifer Bassett ^c   Insel, Beverly ^b   Kleinman, Marjorie ^b  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Media; Newspapers; Suicide contagion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOCUMENTATION; EVALUATION; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; BIBLIOMETRICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; JOURNALISM; NEWSPAPERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37549047566     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910.28.4.165     Document Type: Article

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