INTRODUCTION This survey studies the 10 year psychosocial outcome of 65 adolescents admitted to the Nancy Children's Hospital in 1994 after a suicide attempt. METHOD survey conducted using a self-assessment questionnaire sent to adolescents and their parents. RESULTS The response rate was 55.4%. About seventy per cent (70.5%) of respondents stated they were happy in their affective lives 10...

objective: suicide represented 1.8% of the total global burden of disease in1998 and it will increase to 2.4% in 2020. we performed a cross sectional study to assess the prevalence of suicide ideation, attempt and its associated factors. method: we designed a cross sectional study in mahan and bardsir cities, kerman province, iran. based on the multistage cluster sampling, 860subjects aged 15 a...

This study examined factors associated with suicide attempts among those with schizophrenia (n = 101) versus those without (n = 21,643) in a representative sample of noninstitutionalized Canadians. The lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts among persons with schizophrenia was 39.2% versus 2.8% of nonafflicted individuals. After adjusting for sociodemographics, childhood adversities, substance...

OBJECTIVE To document mortality in a consecutive series of 302 individuals who made medically serious suicide attempts and were followed-up for 5 years. METHOD All sources of mortality were examined in a 5 year prospective study of 302 individuals who made medically serious suicide attempts. Mortality data were obtained by checks with the national mortality database and, for suicide and accid...

This study explores the relationship between church-based informal social support and lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation and attempts within a representative national sample of African American and Black Caribbean adults. Characteristics of church-based social support networks, as well as emotional support and negative interaction with church members were examined in relation to lifetime s...

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 Community corrections populations are a high-risk group who carry multiple suicide risk factors. AIMS To identify factors correlated with historical suicide attempts and ideation among African-American men, African-American women, White men, and White women in a community corrections population. METHOD Self-report data from 18,753 enrollees in community corrections were analyzed....

OBJECTIVE There are no previous studies about the association of childhood bullying behavior with later suicide attempts and completed suicides among both sexes. The aim was to study associations between childhood bullying behaviors at age 8 years and suicide attempts and completed suicides up to age 25 years in a large representative population-based birth cohort. METHOD The sample includes ...

Despite evidence that children of male war veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at particularly high risk for behavior problems, very little is currently known about suicidal behaviors in this population of youth. This study aimed to examine the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of suicide attempts among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescent offspring of ...

Classification and prediction of suicide attempts in high-risk groups is important for preventing suicide. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the information from multiple clinical scales has classification power for identifying actual suicide attempts. Patients with depression and anxiety disorders (N = 573) were included, and each participant completed 31 self-report psychia...