The impact of newspaper reporting of hydrogen sulfide suicide on imitative suicide attempts in Japan

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 221-229

  Hagihara, Akihito ^a   Abe, Takeru ^a,b   Omagari, Megumi ^a   Motoi, Midori ^a   Nabeshima, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Preventive psychiatry; Public health; Suicide

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN SULFIDE;

ANIMAL; CAT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; JAPAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLICATION; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; CATS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; JAPAN; MALE; NEWSPAPERS; SEASONS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84896725200     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-013-0741-8     Document Type: Article

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