OBJECTIVES Among mood disorders, bipolar disorder (BPD) is often noted to involve the highest rates of suicide attempts and possibly of completion. This study sought to determine whether suicide attempters with BPD exhibit suicide attempts with higher lethality than attempters with major depressive disorder (MDD) and to explore differences in clinical features associated with suicidal acts. M...

The link between pathological gambling and suicide is poorly understood. The current study has two major goals: to provide descriptive information about suicide ideation and attempts among pathological gamblers trying to quit, and to identify predictors of suicidal ideation and attempts, with a particular emphasis on mood and substance use disorders. A community sample of 101 individuals with g...

BACKGROUND Worldwide, suicide ranks among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-44 years. An estimated 800000 people die by committing suicide annually. OBJECTIVES To better understand the association between aggressive suicidal attempt and non-aggressive suicidal attempt in patients with suicide attempt in the emergency department. PATIENTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional obs...

The purpose of this prospective, naturalistic study was to examine the relationships between suicide attempts and contemporaneous psychiatric disorders, and developmental changes in these relationships from adolescence to young adulthood. The sample consisted of 180 adolescents, 12-19 years of age at hospitalization, repeatedly assessed for up to 13 years (n = 1,825 assessments). Semistructured...

OBJECTIVE The King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention in Washington State, like many jail systems across the nation, implemented a suicide prevention program in response to high suicide rates. A review committee was formed to prospectively study the patterns of suicide attempts that occurred in the system after the program was implemented and to make recommendations for improveme...

OBJECTIVE Childhood traumatic experiences are widely known risk factors in the development of various psychiatric disorders and unfavorable behavior patterns, including suicide attempts. Moreover, in the course of some psychiatric disorders, suicide attempts are more frequent in patients with childhood traumatic experiences. This study explores the influence of childhood traumatic experiences o...

BACKGROUND To investigate the characteristics of adolescent suicide attempters in Taiwan, compare with Western reports and provide reference for suicide preventive interventions in adolescence. METHODS During a 3-year period, the charts of 109 adolescent psychiatric inpatients were retrospectively reviewed. Twenty-eight adolescents admitted to an acute psychiatric ward as a result of recent s...

BACKGROUND Clinical judgments about the likelihood of suicide attempt would be aided by an index of risk factors that could be quickly assessed in diverse settings. We sought to develop such a risk index for 12-month suicide attempts among suicide ideators. METHOD The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), a household survey of adults aged 18+, assessed the 12-month occurrence of su...