A systematic review of scales that measure attitudes toward suicide

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 338-361

  Kodaka, Manami ^a   Poštuvan, Vita ^b   Inagaki, Masatoshi ^a   Yamada, Mitsuhiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

attitude; psychometric properties; scales; suicide; systematic review

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; STANDARD; SUICIDE;

ATTITUDE; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUICIDE;

EID: 79959382459     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764009357399     Document Type: Review

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