Attitudes towards those bereaved by a suicide: A population-based, cross-sectional study in rural Japan

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Minamizono, Sachiko ^a   Motohashi, Yutaka ^a   Yamaji, Masako ^b   Kaneko, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROPHYLAXIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; BEREAVEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 55349108526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-334     Document Type: Article

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