Suicide risk among prisoners in French Guiana: prevalence and predictive factors

Abstract Background Suicide rates in prison are high and their risk factors are incompletely understood. The objective of the present study is to measure the risk of suicide and its predictors in the only prison of multicultural French Guiana. Methods All new prisoners arriving between September 201...

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Main Authors: Gülen Ayhan, Romain Arnal, Célia Basurko, Vincent About, Agathe Pastre, Eric Pinganaud, Dominique Sins, Louis Jehel, Bruno Falissard, Mathieu Nacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2017-05-01
Series:BMC Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12888-017-1320-4