Suicide and deliberate self-harm in Oxford University students over a 30-year period

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-51

  Hawton, Keith ^a   Bergen, Helen ^a   Mahadevan, Su ^a   Casey, Deborah ^a   Simkin, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deliberate self harm; Students; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; STUDENT; SUICIDE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STUDENTS; SUICIDE; UNIVERSITIES; WALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857041278     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0310-3     Document Type: Article

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