Abstract:Background: Suicide safety plans were originally devised to be paper-based and clinician-guided, but digital self-guided plans are now common. Aim: This study explored whether plan format (paper vs. digital), assistance (self-authored vs. ...
Abstract:Background: Men account for three-quarters of suicide deaths in Australia. Self-reliant masculine norms may act as barriers to men’s help-seeking and contribute to suicidal ideation. Men who seek help may be less likely to experience suicidal ...
Abstract:Background: Self-injurious and suicidal thoughts create critical concerns for incarcerated populations, yet relatively little is known about how they are formed and perpetuated within US jails. Dehumanization has been presented as a potentially ...
Platelet Serotonin Concentration in Depressive Children and AdolescentsSummary:Objectives: This study pursued the question to what extent a correlation exists between the platelet serotonin concentration and depressive and/or suicidal behaviour in ...
Assessment and therapy of suicidality in adolescence: the most important recommendations of the current guidelineAbstract. Due to the clinical relevance of suicidal risks, suicide attempts, and suicides in ...
Psychiatric emergencies are stressful and time-consuming for physicians. Comprehensive diagnostic assessment is often not feasible in psychiatric emergency situations. Primary interventions target symptoms and syndromes. Treatments for psychiatric ...
Abstract. This study examined the relationship of depression and life satisfaction with suicidal ideation among older Iranian adults. In this cross-sectional study, a total of 159 older adults in Tehran (73% community-residing, 60 years or older) ...
On the importance of suicidal ideation in respect to aggressiveness, self-esteem, and hopelessness in depressive patients and healthy non-clinical subjectsAbstract.Background: Depression, hopelessness, and negative self-esteem are the most frequent ...
Adolescent psychiatric inpatients: Parasuicidal symptoms and psychiatric disordersAbstract. In this study 163 of 537 consecutively admitted adolescent psychiatric inpatients were found to have parasuicidal symptoms at admission, half of which consisted ...
Self-help internet message boards for suicidal peopleAbstract.Theoretical background: In clinical circles, the evaluation of risks and/or benefits of internet message boards, in which users discuss their suicidal thoughts, has been found to be very ...
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Resulting From a Suicide Attempt. A Pilot StudyAbstract:Background: First studies suggest that self-performed suicide attempts may cause PTSD symptomatology with surprising frequency. However, the reported ...
Summary: Depression is associated with high rates of suicidal ideation, which varies in intensity from transient thoughts of wishing to be dead to the making of plans and, finally, to attempts to kill oneself. There is limited evidence from family, twin, ...
The purpose of the present study was to ascertain the prevalence of malingering by inpatients admitted to an urban hospital for suicidal ideation or attempt. Fifty-eight consecutively hospitalized suicidal patients were asked to participate, and of these ...