Experience with Euthanasia is associated with fearlessness about death in veterinary students

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-138

  Witte, Tracy K ^a   Correia, Christopher J ^a   Angarano, Donna ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EDUCATION; EUTHANASIA; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDENT; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; VETERINARIAN;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EDUCATION, VETERINARY; EUTHANASIA; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; VETERINARIANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875645379     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12000     Document Type: Article

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