An archival study of an adolescent day patient unit with a particular focus on risk-taking behaviour and suicidality

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2002

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University of Cape Town

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This study was conducted with the following three objectives: 1, to construct a profile of patients admitted to William Slater Hospital day-patient program during a three-year period (1998-2000). 2, To study the prevalence of suicide and risk-taking behaviour among this sample population, and thus making a comparison with Cummins and Allwood's (1984) study. 3 To explore the extent to which risk-taking behaviour is associated with suicidal hebaviour in this clinical population. Archival research method was used to achieve these objectives.
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