Risk factors for suicide in Hungary: A case-control study

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Almasi, Kitty ^a   Belso, Nora ^a   Kapur, Navneet ^b   Webb, Roger ^b   Cooper, Jayne ^b   Hadley, Sarah ^b   Kerfoot, Michael ^b   Dunn, Graham ^b   Sotonyi, Peter ^c   Rihmer, Zoltan ^a,c   Appleby, Louis ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNGARY; MARRIAGE; MOOD DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 69249149282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-9-45     Document Type: Article

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