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Original Research

The relationship between social support and suicide risk in a national sample of ethnically diverse sexual minority women

(BA) , (PhD) & (MA, MS)
Pages 116-126 | Received 19 Jun 2015, Accepted 21 Dec 2015, Published online: 08 Mar 2016

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