Citation

Edwards SD, Cheetham RW, Naidoo LR, Griffiths JA. S. Afr. Med. J. 1981; 60(6): 241-243.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, South African Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7256473

Abstract

Biographical and psychiatric factors in 100 patients referred to a department of psychiatry after a suicide attempt were surveyed. One of the major precipitants of parasuicide in the present study, and found in all cases, was an interpersonal dispute; this involved extended family in 63 cases and marital or romantic relationships in 81.

Language: en