Suicidal thoughts and behaviours among Australian adults: findings from the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing.
OBJECTIVES: To provide an overview of the lifetime and 12 month prevalence of suicidal ideation, suicide plans and suicide attempts for Australian adults as a whole and for particular sociodemographic and clinical population subgroups, and to explore the health service use of people with suicidality...
| Publicado en: | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry Vol. 43; no. 7; pp. 635 - 644 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jul2009
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