Background. Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV/AIDS) continues to be an underrecognized risk for suicidal ideation, suicidal attempt, and completion of suicide. Suicidal ideation and attempt in HIV/AIDS is not only a predictor of future attempted suicide and completed suicide. Methods. An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted among HIV-positive patients attending HIV care at Zew...

OBJECTIVES To examine predictive power of psychache and life satisfaction on risks for suicidal ideation and suicide attempt among young people. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING Data were collected from an online survey in Wuhan, China. PARTICIPANTS 5988 university students from six universities were selected by a stratified cluster sampling method. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME ...

OBJECTIVES To comprehensively examine the relationship between current sleep duration and past suicidal idea or attempt among Korean adolescents. METHODS Data came from the 2009 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey with 75 066 participants (with the participation rate of 97.6%) in 800 middle and high schools. Binary logistic regression was conducted by gender and depressed mood to ident...

BACKGROUND WHO stated that nearly one million people commit suicide every year worldly, and 40% of the suicide completer suffered from depression. The primary aim of this study was to explore the association between long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and suicide risk of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS Using Human LncRN...

introduction: suicide is the third cause of mortality in america, second leading cause of death in developed countries, and one of the major health problems. self-harm is self-inflicted damage to one’s self with or without suicidal intent. in the present study, the predictive factors of suicide attempt and non-suicidal self-harm were evaluated in patients referred to emergency department (ed) w...

BACKGROUND We aimed to estimate the prevalence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt among prisoners in New South Wales, Australia; and, among prisoners reporting suicidal ideation, to identify factors associated with suicide attempt. METHODS A cross-sectional design was used. Participants were a random, stratified sample of 996 inmates who completed a telephone survey. The estimated popul...

Background: The term of suicide is too broad and too vague. The definition and risk for suicide-related behaviors, that including self-harm, threats, attempts and suicide, remain unclear. In addition, whether paternal or maternal bonding plays an important role in suicidal attempt and threat is unknown in Taiwan. Hence, this study aimed to find out the relationship between different parental bo...