The possible factors affecting suicide attempts in the different phases of the menstrual cycle

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 460-464

  Çayköylü, Ali ^a   Çapoglu, Ilyas ^a   Öztürk, Isik ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gonadal hormones; Menstrual cycle; Precipitating factors; Suicide attempt

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HAMILTON SCALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGESTERONE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TURKEY;

EID: 7944226708     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2004.01286.x     Document Type: Article

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