Religion and suicide in patients with mental illness or cancer

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 213-222

  Panczak, Radoslaw ^a   Spoerri, Adrian ^a   Zwahlen, Marcel ^a   Bopp, Matthias ^b   Gutzwiller, Felix ^b   Egger, Matthias ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; SWITZERLAND; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84875645809     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12009     Document Type: Article

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