BACKGROUND Suicide is a major health concern. Effective acute interventions are lacking. Recent studies have suggested an acute decrease of suicidal ideations following repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS). However, placebo effects could not be excluded. We aimed to evaluate the acute effect of accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation (TBS) on suicide risk in depression. ...

BACKGROUND Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) is a therapeutic framework that appears promising to reduce suicidal ideation and suicidal cognition. CAMS has not previously been evaluated in a standard specialized mental health care setting for patients with suicidal problems in general. In this pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) we will investigate if CAMS is...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the predictors of suicidal ideation and attempts among Turkish Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study comprised 120 patients with PD. Clinical findings were obtained by using the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale. Disease severity was measured by the Hoehn and Yahr staging scale, and the Schwab and England Activities of Daily Living ...

BACKGROUND The main aim of this study was to accumulate research evidence that introduce validated scales to measure suicidal attitudes and ideation and provide an empirical framework for adopting a relevant assessment tool in studies on suicide and suicidal behaviors. METHODS Medical Subject Headings' (MeSH) terms were used to search Ovid Medline, PROQUEST, Wiley online library, Science Dire...

objective: to evaluate the possible interaction between religious beliefs and psychiatric disorders among black americans. methods: in this study, we used data of 5181 adult black americans who had participated in national survey of american life (nsal) from february 2001 to june 2003. variables such as socio-demographics, religious beliefs, and psychiatric disorders were entered in a cox regre...

BACKGROUND Suicidal behaviors and depression are prevalent phenomena among adolescents, and are considered a public health problem. AIM To determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and suicidal behaviors and the relationship between both phenomena, in a representative sample of students from ninth grade in Santiago, Chile. MATERIAL AND METHODS We recruited a probability sample of 2,59...

objective: suicide is seen in major depression, also in chronic diseases patients. hba1c is a marker of long-term control of diabetes. the aim of this study was evaluation of the suicidal ideations in diabetic patients and its association with the status of blood sugar control based on hemoglobin a1c (hb a1c). materials and methods: this study is a cross-sectional study. the patients were selec...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this investigation was to identify distinctive clinical correlates of psychotic major depression (PMD) as compared with non-psychotic major depression (NPMD) in a large cohort of Korean patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS We recruited 966 MDD patients of age over 18 years from the Clinical Research Center for Depression of South Korea (CRESCEND) stu...