Psychopathology and Suicide among Quebec Physicians: A Nested Case Control Study

Psychopathology and Suicide among Quebec Physicians: A Nested Case Control Study

Objective. To describe a psychiatric profile and characteristics of physicians who killed themselves in Quebec between 1992 and 2009. Method. The cases of 36 physicians (7 females and 29 males) and 36 nonphysicians who committed suicide were matched for age and gender and examined in a nested case control design. All subjects were judged as definite suicide by the Quebec Coroner Head Office. Co...

Exposure to electromagnetic fields and suicide among electric utility workers: a nested case-control study.

OBJECTIVES This nested case-control study examines mortality from suicide in relation to estimated exposure to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in a cohort of 138,905 male electric utility workers. METHODS Case-control sampling included 536 deaths from suicide and 5348 eligible controls. Exposure was classified based on work in the most common jobs with increased exposure...

Risk of suicide among users of calcium channel blockers: population based, nested case-control study.

Lindberg et al reported the results of two studies, which they interpreted as showing that calcium channel blockers may increase the risk of suicide. They found a significant correlation between rates of suicide and use of calcium channel blockers (r = 0.29, P < 0.001) in a cross sectional ecological study and an increased risk of suicide (relative risk 5.4, 95% confidence interval 1.4 to 20.5)...

Case–Control Study, Nested

Stressful life events, psychopathology, and adolescent suicide: a case control study.

The relationship between stressful life events and adolescent suicide was assessed in 67 adolescent suicide victims and 67 matched community controls. In the year before death, suicide completers were more likely to have experienced: (1) interpersonal conflict with parents and with boy/girlfriends, (2) disruption of a romantic attachment, (3) legal or disciplinary problems. Legal or disciplinar...