Poor social integration and suicide: Fact or artifact? A case-control study

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1331-1337

  Duberstein, Paul R ^a   Conwell, Y ^a   Conner, K R ^a   Eberly, S ^a   Evinger, J S ^a   Caine, E D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD REARING; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOPATHY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE;

EID: 8744243090     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291704002600     Document Type: Article

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