Risk factors for suicide in rural south India

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-30

  Manoranjitham, S D ^a   Rajkumar, A P ^a   Thangadurai, P ^a   Prasad, J ^a   Jayakaran, R ^a   Jacob, K S ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MORBIDITY; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74949084939     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.108.063347     Document Type: Article

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