TY - JOUR AU - Li, Ziyao AB - ORIGINAL ARTICLE Suicide Means Used by Chinese Rural Youths A Comparison Between Those With and Without Mental Disorders Jie Zhang, PhD,*Þ and Ziyao Li, MPH*þ 1959; Zhang et al., 2004), and more than 90% of suicide cases in the Abstract: Reports on Chinese rural youth suicide indicated patterns different West have died with a psychiatric diagnosis (American Psychiatric from those of the West. Only about 30% to 70% young victims had had Association, 2003; Conwell et al., 1996; Mann et al., 2005). However, diagnoses of psychiatric illnesses (Phillips et al., Lancet 359:835Y840, 2002; the percentage of psychiatric diagnoses among suicide victims in Xiao et al., Chin J Psychiatry 36:129Y131, 2003), and more than 60% of them China is lower than in the West: about 70% or lower of the suicide used pesticides as suicide means (Wang et al., Lancet 372:1765Y1773, 2008). victims in China have been found to have at least one such illness To prevent suicides in rural China, it is important to know the choice of means (Phillips et al., 2002a). Some studies indicated that suicide victims by Chinese young suicide victims with and without mental disorders. Data on with or without mental disorders might be from TI - Suicide Means Used by Chinese Rural Youths A Comparison Between Those With and Without Mental Disorders JF - The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease DO - 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31821d3ac7 DA - 2011-06-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/suicide-means-used-by-chinese-rural-youths-a-comparison-between-those-n9AsLDyn33 SP - 410 EP - 415 VL - 199 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -