Age and gender differences in the use of various poisoning methods for deliberate parasuicide cases admitted to Loghman Hospital in Tehran (2000-2004)

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 231-239

  Ghazinour, Mehdi ^a   Emami, Habib ^b,c   Richter, Jorg ^d   Abdollahi, Mohammad ^e   Pazhumand, Abdolkarim ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

^d Centre for Child and Adolescents Mental Health   (Norway)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; ALCOHOL; PESTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DRUG INTOXICATION; FEMALE; GAS POISONING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POISONING METHOD; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF POISONING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGROCHEMICALS; ANALGESICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOTICS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PESTICIDES; POISONING; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 67649364710     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2009.39.2.231     Document Type: Article

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