Citation

Sale I, Williams CL, Clark J, Mills J. Suicide 1975; 5(3): 158-168.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, Human Sciences Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1224380

Abstract

A survey of community attitudes and beliefs concerning suicidal behavior is reported, in which women from two suburbs differing widely in their rates of hospital treated self-poisoning and self-injury were interviewed. Sympathetic attitudes to suicidal behavior and to those who engage in it were significantly more prevalent in the low-risk area. Community beliefs regarding lethality, etiology, and ability to distinguish suicide and "attempted suicide" are reported, and the relationship of these beliefs to attitudes is discussed.