Suicide risk and its relationship to change in marital status

Crisis

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-30

  Roškar, Saška ^a   Podlesek, Anja ^b   Kuzmanić, Marja ^c   Demšar, Lucija Omejc ^d   Zaletel, Metka ^a   Marušič, Andrej ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Life event; Marital status (change); Suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SLOVENIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; WIDOW;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SLOVENIA; SUICIDE; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 79952610287     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000054     Document Type: Article

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