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Article: The role of the forensic nurse in the assessment of abuse: among female suicide survivors.
- Article from:
- The Forensic Examiner
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
- Author:
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Abstract
The article reports a study examining the suicide survivor's experiences of abuse. The 49 female suicide survivors who participated in this study were part of a larger nursing intervention study. Descriptive statistics and non-parametric Spearman Correlation for a two-tailed test (alpha
Key words
Abuse, bereavement, rejection, suicide survivors
Introduction
Several researchers have studied the status of the marital relationship before a spouse's suicide. However, none of these studies examined the incidence of abuse in widows who survive the suicide of their (abusive) spouse. Demi (1984) found that suicide survivors compared to non-suicide ...