Trends in suicidality amid the economic crisis in Greece

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 263, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 441-444

  Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N ^a   Savopoulos, Christos ^a   Siamouli, Melina ^a   Zaggelidou, Eleni ^b   Mageiria, Stamatia ^a   Iacovides, Apostolos ^a   Hatzitolios, Apostolos I ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Ministry of Justice   (Greece)

Author keywords

Economic crisis; Interventions; Suicidality; Suicide; Suicide prevention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DYSPHORIA; ECONOMIC CRISIS; GREECE; HUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84878563184     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: 14338491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-012-0385-9     Document Type: Article

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