Resource Tag: FINLAND

The authors compared 84 Finnish psychiatric patients with suicide ideation with 166 randomly selected nonsuicidal patients in community-based psychiatric services. Patients with suicide ideation felt a need for psychiatric treatment more often than nonsuicidal patients. They were also more likely to receive antidepressnt medication & weekly therapy sessions were more common among them. A wish […]

This study determined mortality by suicide & other causes of death in a cohort of suicide attempters & identified predictive factors, including contacts with healthcare after the attempt. All consecutive 1198 deliberate self-harm patients treated during a 12-month period in Helsinki were identified. By the end of the 5-year follow-up period, 171 patients had died; […]

Data were collected for 10,934 individuals alive in Finland at the age of 16 from the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort. The Finnish Hospital Discharge Register was used until the end of 1997 to identify cases with mental disorder. 100 subjects met criteria for schizophrenia. Deaths by the end of 2005 were ascertained from death […]

This study sought to determine the reliability of the Finnish National Register of Medicolegal Autopsies by comparing its data with cause-of-death statistics published by the Central Statistical Office of Finland & to assess its usefulness for epidemiological forensic research. The comprehensivesness of the register over the period 1986-1991 was studied in general terms & tested […]

Predictive associations between childhood psychopathologic disorders at the age of 8 years & later suicide & severe suicide attempts were studied in a birth cohort that included 5302 Finns born in 1981 & examined at the age of 8. 54 individuals had either died by suicide or made a serious attempt resulting in hospital admission. […]

The objective of this study was to develop & explore the effectiveness of a 4-session intervention that combined elements of acceptance & commitment therapy with elements of solution focused brief therapy to prevent deliberate self-harm in adults. An experimental pilot study with follow-up assessments at 4- & 6-months after baseline was conducted using a random […]

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This study evaluated the differences in suicidal behaviour between adolescent anorexia nervosa & bulimia nervosa outpatients, & the association of age, menarche timing, duration of eating disorder, depression, & general psychopathological symptoms with suicidal behaviour. 57 outpatient females were included in the study. Suicide ideation, deliberate self-harm, & suicide attempts were assessed in self-report questionnaires. […]

This study investigated differences in characteristics of burn patients who had attempted suicide compared with other burn patients admitted to the Helsinki Burn Centre during 1989-1997. Of the total 811 patients, 46 had attempted suicide. The median total body surface area of suicide attempters was markedly higher than in the other patients. Flame was a […]

In this 12-month follow-up study, the authors investigated the relationship between alexithymia & suicide ideation in a sample 0f 1,563 general population participants. Suicide ideation was more common among subjects with alexithymia than non-alexithymia subjects. In cross-sectional analyses, alexithymia associated with the presence of suicide ideation even after adjustment for gender, age, & several psychosocial […]

The results of a follow-up study of people who had attempted suicide were reported in this presentation. 108 patients admitted to the medical ward of Tampere Central Hospital (Finland) in 1977 because of a suicide attempt participated in the study. The goals of the study were to shed light on the state of health of […]

In this presentation, a study investigating the relationship between suicide rates & social environments in various parts of Helsinki in 1970-1971 was discussed. Results supported the hypotheses that the suicide rate is inversely related to the degree of integration of the community & that integrative changes tend to decrease & disintegrative changes to increase suicides.

The nationwide mortality in Finland of young offenders sentenced to prison was studied. All offenders sentenced to prison between 1984-2000 & aged 15-21 years when the crime was committed were selected for this study. By the end of the follow-up period, 435 (11.4%) of the study population had died. 148 of these deaths were by […]

This presentation was part of a symposium held in January 2005 at Akita University on national suicide prevention strategies. The presenter discussed his study of Finland’s national strategy & why it produced such good results. It was concluded that Japan can learn from Finland’s experience.

This presentation discussed the role of community agencies in suicide prevention, focusing on the SOS Center in Helsinki. This center is a program of the Finnish Association for Mental Health. It is concluded that the success of the agency indicates government & nonprofits can work together.

This study examined associations between suicide mortality, unemployment, divorce rate, & mean alcohol consumption during an economic cycle in Finland, from 1985-1995. Regression analyses using a correction for serial autocorrelation were performed. Suicde mortality in both females & males increased during an economic upswing from 1985-1990, & decreased during an economic recession from 1990-1995. Suicide […]

All subjects without psychosis, hospitalized for a suicide attempt, from 1997-2003 in Finland were followed-up to estimate the risk of suicide, attempted suicide, & overall mortality during antidepressant treatments. In the entire cohort, fluoxetine use was associated with the lowest risk & venlafaxine hydrochloride use with the highest risk of suicide. Among subjects who had […]

The purpose of this article is to introduce social scientists to the Pearson System of Frequency Curves. This procedure is an important tool in the identification of a wide range of statistical distributions from empirical data. Several examples are provided, including the frequency distribution of Finnish male & female suicide by age for the year […]