INTRODUCTION Although suicide rates have increased in some European countries in relation to the current economic crisis and austerity policies, that trend has not been observed in Spain. This study examines the impact of the economic crisis on suicide attempts, the previously neglected endpoint of the suicidal process, and its relation to unemployment, age and sex. METHODS The study was carr...

OBJECTIVE Attempted suicide is the strongest known predictor of completed suicide. However, suicide risk declines over time after an attempt, and it is unclear how long the risk persists. Risk estimates are almost exclusively based on studies of less than 10 years of follow-up. METHOD The authors followed a cohort of 100 consecutive self-poisoned patients in Helsinki in 1963, for whom forensi...

abstract background: to investigate the predisposing and precipitating risk factors for suicide ideations and suicide attempts in young and adolescent females, we tried to introduce a holistic model of suicidal behavior in young and adolescent girls. methods: this study is based on the survey studies and was cross-sectional. considering high rates of suicide attempts in provinces of iran, three...

objectives: in this study, assessed the reliability, validity, and predictive power of a new version of the reasons for living inventory for adolescents among iranian adolescents in the city of kermanshah. methods: to examine this study a group of 400(189 males and 211 females) adolescent in high schools of kermanshah and adolescents that attempt to suicide and cared in emam khomeini hospital s...

The validity of self-reported suicide attempt information is undermined by false positives (e.g., incidences without intent to die), or by unreported suicide attempts, referred to as false negatives. In a sample of 1,385 Austrian adults, we explored the occurrence of false positives and false negatives with detailed, probing questions. Removing false positives decreased the rate of suicide atte...

This project aimed to develop a standard operating procedure (SOP) for suicide postvention in Fire Service. First, an existing SOP was refined through expert review. Next, focus groups were conducted with fire departments lacking a peer suicide postvention SOP; feedback obtained guided revisions. The current article describes the iterative process used to evaluate and revise a Suicide Postventi...

Completed suicide constitutes one of the leading causes of death in adolescents and young adults. Youth suicide attempt often precedes completed suicide and represents in itself a considerable public health problem in Sweden and in other European countries. The aims of this study were to 1) scrutinise trends in suicide mortality in adolescents compared to trends in an older age group and in rel...

BACKGROUND The objectives were to assess thoughts about suicide, plans to commit suicide and suicide attempts in the community, to investigate the use of health services following a suicide attempt, and to describe basic socio-cultural indices of the community. METHOD The community survey was one component of the larger WHO multisite intervention study on suicidal behaviours (SUPRE-MISS). In ...

OBJECTIVES US and UK suicide prevention strategies suggest that bereavement by the suicide of a relative or friend is a risk factor for suicide. However, evidence is lacking that the risk exceeds that of any sudden bereavement, is specific to suicide, or applies to peer suicide. We conducted the first controlled UK-wide study to test the hypothesis that young adults bereaved by suicide have an ...

AIMS Acute alcohol intoxication itself may act as a trigger for suicidal thoughts and attempts among individuals at risk and may influence the potential lethality of the suicide attempt. This study in alcohol-dependent patients compared the correlates of suicide attempts during a heavy drinking episode with those of suicide attempts during relative sobriety. METHODS In two outpatient and two ...