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Suicide attempts and related factors in schizophrenia patients

Memduha Aydın, Bilge Ç. İlhan, Rukiye Tekdemir, Yusuf Çokünlü, Vefa Erbasan and Kürşat Altınbaş
Saudi Medical Journal May 2019, 40 (5) 475-482; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.5.24153
Memduha Aydın
From the Department of Psychiatry (Aydın, Tekdemir, Erbasan, Altınbaş), Selçuk University; and from the Department of Psychiatry (İlhan, Çokünlü), Konya Training amd Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey
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Bilge Ç. İlhan
From the Department of Psychiatry (Aydın, Tekdemir, Erbasan, Altınbaş), Selçuk University; and from the Department of Psychiatry (İlhan, Çokünlü), Konya Training amd Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey
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Rukiye Tekdemir
From the Department of Psychiatry (Aydın, Tekdemir, Erbasan, Altınbaş), Selçuk University; and from the Department of Psychiatry (İlhan, Çokünlü), Konya Training amd Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey
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Yusuf Çokünlü
From the Department of Psychiatry (Aydın, Tekdemir, Erbasan, Altınbaş), Selçuk University; and from the Department of Psychiatry (İlhan, Çokünlü), Konya Training amd Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey
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Vefa Erbasan
From the Department of Psychiatry (Aydın, Tekdemir, Erbasan, Altınbaş), Selçuk University; and from the Department of Psychiatry (İlhan, Çokünlü), Konya Training amd Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey
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Kürşat Altınbaş
From the Department of Psychiatry (Aydın, Tekdemir, Erbasan, Altınbaş), Selçuk University; and from the Department of Psychiatry (İlhan, Çokünlü), Konya Training amd Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey
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