Why people engage in parasuicide: A cross-cultural study of intentions

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 380-393

  Hjelmeland, Heidi ^a   Hawton, Keith ^b   Nordvik, Hilmar ^a   Bille Brahe, Unni ^c   De Leo, Diego ^d   Fekete, Sandor ^e   Grad, Onja ^f   Haring, Christian ^g   Kerkhof, Ad J F M ^h   Lönnqvist, Jouko ⁱ   Michel, Konrad ^j   Salander Renberg, Ellinor ^k   Schmidtke, Armin ^l   Van Heeringen, Kees ^m   Wasserman, Danuta ⁿ  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Suicide Research   (Denmark)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^f UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

^g Landesnervenkrankenhaus ^*  (Austria)

^h VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁱ NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^k UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^l UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^m GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

ⁿ KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EUROPE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; MULTICENTER STUDIES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 6444244327     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.32.4.380.22336     Document Type: Article

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