Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the link between suicidal behaviors and labor market productivity of young adults in the United States. Using data from the National Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we estimate the effects of suicide thoughts and suicide attempts on the work and schooling activities of y...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether treatment of mental disorders reduces the probability that a) people without suicidal ideation will begin to contemplate suicide, or b) people who have thought about killing themselves (but have not attempted suicide) will go on to make an attempt. METHODS Mental disorders, service use for emotional or substance use problems, and suicidality were assessed usin...

American Indians exhibit suicide-related behaviors at rates much higher than the general population. This study examines the relation of spirituality to the lifetime prevalence of attempted suicide in a probability sample of American Indians. Data were derived from a cross-sectional sample of 1456 American Indian tribal members (age range 15-57yr) who were living on or near their Northern Plain...

BACKGROUND The risk/rescue rating scale (RRRS) assesses the lethality of a suicide attempt, which is defined as the probability of inflicting irreversible damage. We assessed the lethality of suicide attempts using the RRRS and identified the socio-demographic profiles of patients who achieved high lethality in deliberate self-poisoning (DSP). METHODS A retrospective study was conducted to ev...

BACKGROUND Assortative relating is a proposed explanation for the increased occurrence of suicidal behavior among those exposed to suicidal peers. This explanation proposes that high-risk individuals associate with each other, and shared risk factors explain the effect. METHODS Data were obtained from the ADDhealth longitudinal survey waves I and II (n=4834 school attending adolescents). Peop...

BACKGROUND Following our previous publication we have received critical comments to our conclusions as well as new data that are strengthening our findings. RESULTS With the new data, 11 suicide attempts among patients on paroxetine against 1 among patients on placebo, we found with a Bayesian technique that the posterior probability that medication with paroxetine is associated with an incre...

background : suicide has become an increasingly widespread form of morbidity in the developing countries. there has been an increasing trend in morbidity and mortality due to suicide in iran over the past few decades. this study surveyed attempts and completed suicide over a 5-year period. methods : through a cross-sectional study, overall identified suicides by systematic registration suicide ...

background: one of the important aspects of the epidemiologic study of suicide and its related behaviors is the identification of suicide methods. this study aimed to investigate the geographical epidemiology of common methods of suicide and suicide attempts in fars province located in southwestern iran during the years 2010-2013. materials and methods: the present study was conducted on 17,342...

Suicidal behavior is a leading cause of injury and death worldwide. Suicide has been associated with psychiatric illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia, as well as economic uncertainty, and social/cultural factors. This study proposes a neuroeconomic framework of suicide. Neuroeconomic parameters (e.g., risk-attitude, probability weighting, time discounting in intertemporal choice, and ...