Proximal risk factors and suicide methods among suicide completers from national suicide mortality data 2004-2006 in Korea

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-237

  Im, Jeong Soo ^a   Choi, Soon Ho ^b   Hong, Duho ^a   Seo, Hwa Jeong ^a   Park, Subin ^b   Hong, Jin Pyo ^b  

^a Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; CHILD; DRUG INTOXICATION; FALLING; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; HANGING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 79954633273     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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