Teenage suicides in northern Sweden: an interview study of investigating police oYcers

Teenage suicides in northern Sweden: an interview study of investigating police officers.

OBJECTIVE To disclose recurrent, dynamic, and static factors in teenage suicide involving the suicidee, his/her family, and the community; and to investigate the feasibility of using police as informants for suicide studies. SUBJECTS All deaths categorised as suicide 1993 through 1995 among teenagers in Northern Sweden (n=15). METHOD Semiqualitative interviews with police officers, and, whe...

Teenage suicide cluster formation and contagion: implications for primary care

BACKGROUND We have previously studied unintentional as well as intentional injury deaths among teenagers living in the four northernmost counties, forming approximately 55% of Sweden with 908,000 inhabitants in 1991. During this work, we found what we suspected to be a suicide cluster among teenagers and we also suspected contagion since there were links between these cases. In this present stu...

In the aftermath of teenage suicide: A qualitative study of the psychosocial consequences for the surviving family members

BACKGROUND Studies of family reactions following teenage suicide are hampered by the psychological difficulties of approaching families and recruiting an unbiased sample of study subjects. By using a small but consecutive series of cases, we examined the qualitative aspects of loosing a teenage family member due to suicide. Such an understanding is important for future organisation of proper pr...

An Overview of Hydrogen Sulfide Suicides Based on Police Data in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Clustering of teenage suicides after television news stories about suicides: a reconsideration.

A recent study reported a significant increase in teenage suicides after television newscasts about suicide in the period 1973-1979 and suggested that the increase might have resulted from an imitative effect of television. In the present study, the authors found no significant association between newscasts and subsequent teenage suicides over the period 1973-1984. Although teenage suicides inc...