A Systematic Review of Mass Media Campaigns for Suicide Prevention: Understanding Their Efficacy and the Mechanisms Needed for Successful Behavioral and Literacy Change

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 672-687

  Torok, Michelle ^a   Calear, Alison ^b   Shand, Fiona ^a   Christensen, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LITERACY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STANDARDS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LITERACY; MALE; MASS MEDIA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 85007565362     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12324     Document Type: Article

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