Who leaves suicide notes? A six-year population-based study

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 326-334

  Cerel, Julie ^a   Moore, Melinda ^b   Brown, Margaret M ^c   Van De Venne, Judy ^a   Brown, Sabrina L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE; WRITING;

ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; CORRESPONDENCE AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUICIDE;

EID: 84929668275     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12131     Document Type: Article

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