Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys.

Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys.

Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide. Mental disorders are among the strongest predictors of suicide; however, little is known about which disorders are uniquely predictive of suicidal behavior, the extent to which disorders predict suicide attempts beyond their association with suicidal th...

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Main Authors: Matthew K Nock, Irving Hwang, Nancy Sampson, Ronald C Kessler, Matthias Angermeyer, Annette Beautrais, Guilherme Borges, Evelyn Bromet, Ronny Bruffaerts, Giovanni de Girolamo, Ron de Graaf, Silvia Florescu, Oye Gureje, Josep Maria Haro, Chiyi Hu, Yueqin Huang, Elie G Karam, Norito Kawakami, Viviane Kovess, Daphna Levinson, Jose Posada-Villa, Rajesh Sagar, Toma Tomov, Maria Carmen Viana, David R Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-08-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2717212?pdf=render

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