Patterns and predictors of help-seeking contacts with health services and general practitioner detection of suicidality prior to suicide: A cohort analysis of suicides occurring over a two-year period

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Leavey, Gerard ^a   Rosato, Michael ^a   Galway, Karen ^b   Hughes, Lynette ^a   Mallon, Sharon ^c   Rondon, Janeet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General practice; Health services; Help seeking; Suicidality; Suicide predictors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSULTATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IRELAND; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CARE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; NORTHERN IRELAND; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHERN IRELAND; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUICIDE;

EID: 85007480701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-016-0824-7     Document Type: Article

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