Resource Tag: ATTEMPTED AND COMPLETED SUICIDE COMPARISONS

A study of the content of suicide notes from attempted suicides and completed suicides was conducted using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) text analysis program. Notes from completed suicides had fewer metaphysical references, more future tense verbs, more social references (to others) and more positive emotions than did the notes from attempted suicides. […]

A longitudingal prospective case-register study was conducted from 1995-2002 to describe the incidence of & factors associated with suicide in Ilam, Iran. 2512 people died by suicide during the study period. More women than men attempted or died by suicide. Rates were highest among 20-29-year-olds & decreased with increasing age. Suicidal behaviour was associated with […]

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Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”

Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”

For a related article, please see SIEC #2004-1046

The authors comprehensively examine clinical risk factors, including suicide intent & hopelessness, for suicide & risk of death from all causes after attempted suicide. 224 patients from consecutive cases of attempted suicide in 4 Finnish cities between 1 January & 31 July 1990 were interviewed. At 12-year follow-up, 22% of these patients had died, 8% […]

Published in “Suicide Risk & Protective Factors in the New Millennium,” ed. by O T Grad

In this study the authors explore whether elderly suicide victims who had a previous history of attempted suicide differ from those with no similar history. A group of elderly suicide victims with a history of deliberate self-harm (DSH) was compared to a matching group who also died by suicide but were not known to have […]

For a summary of the key findings of this report, please see SIEC #2004-0884

This chapter analyzes possible mitigating factors that could explain the apparent gender difference in suicide rates. Marital status, individual characteristics, method choice, physiological differences, psychosis, & social roles are examined as possible factors. The author asserts that, although further research is required, there is some evidence for a relationship between gender roles & suicide. (35 […]

This article is a transcribed conversation among several physicians discussing genetics research on bipolar disorder & suicide risk. Research studies on the biology of behavior & the genetics of behavior are compared. Several causative factors for suicide are presented, including social stresses, psychological disorders, & genetic predispositions. It is noted that suicide is complex & […]

Among affectively ill patients followed naturalistically for up to 14 years, 36 completed suicide, 120 attempted suicide, & 373 had no recorded suicide attempt. Comparing these three groups on clinical & intake personality revealed that suicide completed within 12 months was predicted by newly derived temperament factors, not clinical variables. Core characteristics shared by attempters […]

This study compared risk factors for suicide & medically serious nonfatal suicide attempts among youth under 25 years of age. Individuals who had completed suicide, those who made serious suicide attempts, & nonsuicidal community subjects were compared. It was found that the same risk factors (mood disorder, history of psychiatric care, educational disadvantage, stresful circumstances) […]

Based on they hypotheses of some authors that reports on suicide in media can lead to imitation, the author surveyed all articles of reported suicides (not only subway-suicides & -attempts) in the two largest Austrian daily newspapers & analyzed them in connection with the subway-suicide-scene. The findings suggest that if media reports should have an […]

Using case-control methodology, risk factors for suicidal behaviour were examined in 202 individuals who died by suicide, 275 individuals who made medically serious suicide attempts, & 984 randomly selected control subjects. Multiple logistic regression identified risk factors that were common to suicide & serious suicide attempts, including: current mood disorder; previous suicide attempts; prior outpatient […]

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In this column, it is asked if it is true that males complete suicide more often & females attempt suicide more often in all age groups. The answer provided says that this is true, except in children, ages 5-14, where males both attempt & complete suicide more frequently. The reasons for this are not clear, […]

This study explores the relationship of positive & negative symptoms, & posthospital functioning to subsequent suicidal behaviour over a 7.5 year period, & examines whether these patterns vary with diagnosis. The results support a multifactor model of suicide risk. Both psychosis & poor functioning show some relationship to later suicidal activity for both schizophrenic & […]

The epidemiology of parasuicide & its relation to suicide during the years 1989 – 1995 was studied in a northern Swedish county. Suicides among the monitored cases of parasuicide constituted about 14.5% of the suicides in the area, suggesting that even by successful treatment of current parasuiciders only a limited proportion of the suicides would […]

This article is a discussion on the book Cry of Pain: Understanding Suicide and Self Harm by Mark Williams. The author suggests that suicidal people do not “cry for help” but rather their cry is one of agony of one trapped in an intolerable situation. He writes that suicide & parasuicide are merely different responses […]