The duration of the suicidal process: How much time is left for intervention between consideration and accomplishment of a suicide attempt?

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-24

  Deisenhammer, Eberhard A ^a   Ing, Chy Meng ^a   Strauss, Robert ^a   Kemmler, Georg ^a   Hinterhuber, Hartmann ^a   Weiss, Elisabeth M ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INTENTION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60349128823     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.07m03904     Document Type: Article

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