OBJECTIVE Suicide attempts are a major public health problem. This study aimed to investigate the lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation and suicide attempts in Manisa city centre. Risk factors related to suicide ideations and attempts were also studied. METHOD This study was carried out in Manisa city centre. Using cluster and systematic samples, data were collected from 1086 persons 15-65 ...

The Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview (SITBI) was created to address limitations in existing suicide assessments and its validity was evaluated in the original publication. However, this work has not yet been extended to inpatient adolescents, a population in which suicide assessment is crucial. Moreover, information on the psychometric properties of the SITBI has not been provide...

BACKGROUND Elders commit suicide almost twice as frequently as people in the general population. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of suicide ideation among a representative sample of elderly people in Taiwan. METHODS We used data from the Health Promotion Knowledge, Attitudes, and Performance Survey in Taiwan and focused on 3,853 subjects with over 65 year...

Suicide attempts are more common in adolescence than in any other time in life, despite the low prevalence of actual suicide deaths among adolescents. Studies of adolescent suicide risk tend to focus on factors such as psychiatric diagnosis--particularly depression--and history of previous suicide attempts in predicting risk of future suicidal behavior. However, given that a large number of ado...

BACKGROUND Physicians have an elevated risk of experiencing suicidal thoughts, which might be due to work-related factors. However, the hierarchical work positions as well as work-related health differ among resident and specialist physicians. As such, the correlates of suicide ideation may also vary between these two groups. METHODS In the present study, work- and health-related factors and ...

This study evaluated the role of psychiatric morbidity in relation to a history of suicidal behavior, with a particular focus on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Suicidality and psychiatric diagnoses were assessed in 370 incarcerated male juvenile delinquents from Northern Russia using the semi-structured K-SADS-PL psychiatric interview. A lifetime history of suicidal ideation o...

BACKGROUND Previous studies indicate increased prevalences of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and completed suicide in Huntington's disease (HD) compared with the general population. This study investigates correlates and predictors of suicidal ideation in HD. METHODS The study cohort consisted of 2106 HD mutation carriers, all participating in the REGISTRY study of the European Huntingt...

This is the first paper on suicidal ideation and attempts among ambulance personnel. This study aimed to investigate levels of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among ambulance personnel, and to identify important correlates and the factors to which ambulance personnel attribute their serious suicidal ideation. A comprehensive nationwide questionnaire survey of 1,180 operational ambulance ...

This study examined whether active problem solving would buffer against, whereas passive problem solving would exacerbate, the association of negative life stress with suicidal ideation. Young adult college students (73 females, M(age) = 19.0) from a diverse urban public university, with (n = 37) and without (n = 59) a suicide attempt history completed measures of life stress, problem solving, ...

background: despite growing interest in the public health of sexual minority, youth around the world due to the high rates of suicidal ideation and attempts in this population, few studies on the sexual orientation of korean adolescents have been conducted. therefore, this study investigated the relationship between the sexual orientation of korean adolescents and their suicide-related behavior...