Abstract: This psychometric study examined the psychometric characteristics of the shortened version of the Persian-Reasons for Living Inventory for Older Adults (the shortened P-RFL-OA) in a sample of 293 clinical and nonclinical community-dwelling ...
Abstract.Background A limited amount of research indicates a high prevalence of mental illness in perpetrators of domestic abuse (DA). Aims Estimate the suicide rate in high-risk high-harm ...
Abstract:Background: There is little information about characteristics and long-term outcomes of individuals who self-harm during a suicide cluster. Aims: To compare characteristics of individuals who ...
Abstract:Background: People who present to the emergency department with self-harm and co-occurring substance use problems often have difficulty accessing effective care. Aims: To develop a brief psychosocial intervention for this population, which would ...
Abstract:Background: Charcoal-burning has become a predominant method of suicide in many East-Asian countries since the 1990s. Aims: To explore charcoal-burning suicide trends from 1996 to 2020 in Taiwan. Methods: Joinpoint regression models were applied ...
Abstract:Background: Research into youth suicide prevention rarely involves young people with lived and living experiences as collaborators. Key barriers include a lack of guidelines or frameworks to inform collaboration, appropriate ethical approval ...
Abstract:Aim: This paper reports preliminary evidence of the impacts of Australia’s first residential peer-support service for people at risk of suicide. Methods: Psychological distress was measured preintervention, postintervention, and after 3 months ...
Abstract:Background: Previous ecological studies reported that increasing antidepressant prescriptions were associated with decreasing suicide rates. Aim: To determine whether antidepressant prescription prevalence is negatively associated with suicide ...
Abstract:Objective: Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States, and media publicity plays a role in suicide rates. The United States offers guidelines for the reporting of suicide. This study evaluated guideline adherence in newspaper and ...
Abstract:Background: Different words used for suicide (so-called suicide referents) have different moral connotations, and neutral referents are recommended in media reporting guidelines. Aims: To assess how different referents in media reports are ...
Abstract:Background: There is conflicting evidence on the suicide rates of different public safety personnel (PSP). There have been few studies that compare suicides in PSP with the general population and none that have used a detailed comparison of ...
Abstract:Background: Little is known about the quality of media reports on suicide and prevention targeting persons with sexual or gender minority identities (LGBTQ+). Aims: To assess the quality of suicide-related media reporting of LGBTQ+ people and ...
Summary:“There was nothing which could stop me!” Case report of an imitation suicide by a 14-yearold girlWe present the case of a 14-yearold girl who imitated the railway suicide of her boyfriend as a problem-solving strategy. Theories about the ...
Fragestellung und Methodik: Suchterkrankungen gehören zu den häufigsten psychischen Erkrankungen, die bei Suizidopfern vorliegen. In diesen Übersichtsartikel werden epidemiologische und klinische Studien zu Suizidversuchen und Suizid bei Suchterkrankungen ...
Social cognition and suicidality: A reviewAbstract. Psychiatric and neurological disorders are associated with increased suicide risk. A lack of social integration and support as well as interpersonal conflicts and ...
Suicide in children and adolescents – a 13-year study with 78 casesObjective: Updated and regional data about the circumstances of death and the psychosocial backgrounds of suicides can be helpful for improving suicide-preventive strategies in childhood ...
Objective: Suicide attempts are important predictors of completed suicide. Adolescents admitted to the emergency room of a large university hospital in Bern after a suicide attempt during the years 2004–2010 were prospectively assessed for methods of ...
Suicide and suicide tendencies in adolescent detaineesAbstract. Following accidents, suicide is the second leading cause of death in adolescence. This stage of life has the most suicide attempts of all age ...
Suicide postvention: what mental health professionals need to knowAbstract. Postvention is the term used to describe a package of interventions designed for people affected by suicide. Inpatient suicides in ...
Suicides Among Adolescents in a Major German CityAbstract.Objective: Adolescent suicide is a major contributor to the overall mortality in this age group. This study examined sex and age differences in suicide ...
Migration ist ein Risikofaktor für Suizid und suizidales Verhalten, da Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund oft besonderen Belastungen ausgesetzt sind. Insbesondere junge Frauen weisen häufiger Suizid und suizidales Verhalten auf als gleichaltrige ...
Poisoning is a frequent disease in an emergency division. During four years we observed patients with poisoning related to there reason of intoxication, the degree of severity, age group and sex, and tried to make conclusions about lethal outcome on ...
Suicide rates in Switzerland and most other countries are higher among the elderly than among the population as a whole. Suicidality in the old age is commonly associated with the presence of a mental disorder, especially depression. Medical doctors in ...
Suicidality is a frequently observed but unfortunately frequently overlooked phenomenon. Every year over 1000 persons in Switzerland commit suicide; the number of attempted suicides is much higher. If suicidality is recognized promptly, appropriately ...
Depression and Violence: A Contradiction?Abstract. Depression is one of the leading diseases worldwide. Its symptoms are of great importance for a variety of areas within internal medicine, as patients often pay a ...
Abstract. Most cases of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) occur in the context of severe underlying diseases with concomitant dwindling needs for food and fluids. In these cases, VSED resembles the rejection of a medical treatment. While ...
Abstract. Cardiovascular disease is associated with depression and suicide risk, although there is only limited research available on whether these associations differ by age. This short report examined age differences in associations between ...
Suicidality in childhood and adolescence - Introduction to the special issueAbstract. Suicide in adolescence is an issue that concerns not only child and adolescent psychiatrists, but physicians in other fields as well. Avoidable mistakes, such as ...
Cybersuicide or Werther-Effect online: Suicide chatrooms or forums in the World Wide WebAbstract. Advice in the mass media is of utmost importance in suicide prevention with regard to copying suicide methods. The internet, and the opportunities it ...
Parasuicidal behavior in adolescence: Possibilities and limits of preventionAbstract. In this article literature on characteristics of juvenile suicide attempters is reviewed, and possibilities for preventive interventions is inventoried. A meta-analysis ...
Parasuicide in children and adolescentsAbstract. This review focuses on specific aspects of parasuicidal behavior in children and adolescents. Significant risk factors are psychiatric disorders in the child or adolescent as well as a low level of ...
Media coverage on the suicide of Robert EnkeMedia reports about celebrity suicides are associated with an increase in nationwide suicide rates. Various organizations have therefore developed media guidelines for the coverage of suicide. In the current ...
Theoretischer Hintergrund: Im Rahmen der Interpersonalen Theorie suizidalen Verhaltens postuliert Joiner (2005), dass die Wahrnehmung, nicht Teil einer wertgeschätzten Gruppe zu sein (thwarted belongingness), und der Eindruck, für andere eine Belastung (...
Canada's rate of suicide varies from province to province. The classical theory of suicide, which attempts to explain the social suicide rate, stems from Durkheim, who argued that low levels of social integration and regulation are associated with high ...
This study assesses the efficacy of the treatment approach implemented in the Bern Crisis Intervention Program, where particular emphasis is placed on the remediation of suicide ideation and suicidal behavior, and depression, fear, and phobia are ...
Through psychological autopsy seven cases of physician suicide were studied. All seven victims received a diagnosis of current mood disorder, two of them bipolar disorder. Five had suffered a disabling physical condition. None of the victims had had ...