Suicidal ideation and sex differences in relation to 18 major psychiatric disorders in College and University students: Anonymous web-based assessment

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 203, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 269-278

  Tupler, Larry A ^a   Hong, Jennifer Y ^a   Gibori, Ron ^b   Blitchington, Timothy F ^a   Krishnan, K Ranga R ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Jed Foundation   (United States)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

anxiety; College students; depression; eating disorders; suicide

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGORAPHOBIA; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ANGER; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BULIMIA; COLLEGE STUDENT; DEPRESSION; DSM-IV-TR; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; INTERNET; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927623501     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000277     Document Type: Article

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