Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 65-74 , February 2009

Relationship Between Sense of Belonging as Connectedness and Suicide in American Indians

  • Doris Leal Hill

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding Author: Doris Leal Hill, PhD, RN, CNOR, Post Doctoral Fellow, 11105 Rhode Island Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55438.

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doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2008.03.003

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 65-74 , February 2009

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