Suicidal ideation and associated factors among school-going adolescents in rural Uganda

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Rudatsikira, Emmanuel ^a   Muula, Adamson S ^b   Siziya, Seter ^c   Twa Twa, Jeremiahs ^d  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BULLYING; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; UGANDA; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL; STATISTICS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; UGANDA;

EID: 38849197507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-7-67     Document Type: Article

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