Death by request in Switzerland: Posttraumatic stress disorder and complicated grief after witnessing assisted suicide

European Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 542-546

  Wagner, B ^a   Muller J ^b   Maercker, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assisted suicide; Complicated grief; Depression; Euthanasia; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIEND; GRIEF; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INVENTORY OF COMPLICATED GRIEF; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84866438571     PISSN: 09249338     EISSN: 17783585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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