Negotiating the Maze: Risk Factors for Suicidal Behavior in Chronic Pain Patients

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Newton John, Toby R O ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Life events; Risk factors; Self harm; Suicidal ideation; Suicidality; Suicide; Suicide attempt

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC PAIN; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL DISEASE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TIME;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC PAIN; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP DISORDERS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84928070603     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-014-0447-y     Document Type: Review

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