Chronic pain and suicide: Understanding the association

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Hooley, Jill M ^a   Franklin, Joseph C ^a   Nock, Matthew K ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Fearless about death; Hopelessness; Pain; Risk factors; Self injury; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC PAIN; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEARLESSNESS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; PSYCHOGENIC PAIN; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; CATASTROPHIZING; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; DISABILITY; FEAR; MENTAL DISEASE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CATASTROPHIZATION; CHRONIC PAIN; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEAR; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 84902040688     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-014-0435-2     Document Type: Review

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