A cross-cultural investigation of suicidal behavior and attitudes in Austrian and Turkish medical students

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 813-823

  Eskin, Mehmet ^a   Voracek, Martin ^b   Stieger, Stefan ^b   Altinyazar, Vesile ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Austria; Medical students; Suicidal behavior; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; ATTITUDE; AUSTRIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052323971     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0254-7     Document Type: Article

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