Resource Tag: GESTURES

Although self-injurious thoughts and behaviors are a global health concern, little is known about suicidal threat/gesture(s) where a person leads others to believe they want to end their lives when they have no intention to do so. This study assessed the lifetime prevalence of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among both community adolescents (n = 1117) and in […]

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The lifetime & 12-month prevalence & associations of mental health treatment among Mexican adolescents with suicide-related outcomes are reported. A representative multistage probability household survey of 3005 adolescents in Mexico City was done in 2005. Discrete-time survival analyses were used. The prevalence of lifetime service use among respondents with suicide-related outcomes was 35% for those […]

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This pamphlet provides definitions of suicidal behaviour & direct self-harm. It then discusses methods used for suicide attempts, suicide gestures, & intentional self-harm. Risk factors for these behaviours are listed. The pamphlet concludes with a discussion of interventions that have been evaluated for effectivness.

The authors report prospective associations of baseline risk factors with the first onset & persistence of suicide-related outcomes (ideation, plans, gestures, & attempts) over a 10-year interval among respondents who participated in both the 1990-02 National Comorbidity Survey & the 2000-02 follow-up. A total of 5001 respondents were re-interviewed. New onsets included 6.2% suicide ideation, […]

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The efficacy of 15 years of a public health-oriented suicidal behaviour prevention program among youths living on an American Indian reservation was evaluated. Both descriptive & linear regression analyses indicated that a substantial drop occurred in suicidal gestures & attempts. Suicide deaths neither declined significantly nor increased, although the total number of self-destructive acts declined […]

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The theme of this Conference was “Injuries, Suicide & Violence: Building Knowledge, Policies & Practices to Promote a Safer World”

This article briefly reports on research conducted into the backgrounds of adolescent girls who attempted suicide. The role of rejection & feelings of failure is discussed, and the motives reported by survivors of an attempt are explored.

The author offers a comparative approach to an understanding of suicide in children & adolescents. He explores the incidence of suicide in this age groups, the forms in which suicidal intent is expressed among children & adolescents, & the conflicts & disturbances within the family setting that so often are related to the development of […]

Adolescent women in grades 7 through 12 in a stratified random sample of Alberta high schools completed measures of emotional problems & suicidal behavior in the past 6 months, & of frequency & type of sexual assault experienced in school. It was found that 23% had experienced at least 1 event of assault; 4% had […]

The clinical syndrome of multiple personality disorder is an unusual dissociative condition that has been poorly characterized. In an attempt to better delineate its clinical phenomenology, 100 cases were collected on a 386-item questionnaire completed by clinicians involved in the treatment of patients with multiple personality disorder. This study documents the existence of a clinical […]

Fifty-seven cases of meprobamate ingestion from 1974 to 1979 were reviewed. Concentrations, clinical findings, and epidemiologic data were studied to determine the status of the abuse of this compound. The average patient was determined to be a 37-year-old woman who ingested meprobamate and at least one other drug in a suicide attempt or gesture. She […]

The authors examined the effects of four representative boarding schools on 132 Alaskan Eskimo adolescents during their freshman & sophomore years. Forty-nine percent of the freshmen developed school-related social & emotional disturbances; 25% of these problems were judged serious. High levels of emotional disturbance were also found during the students’ sophomore year. The findings and […]

This paper reviews recent research into the assessment & clinical management of suicide risk in patients with personality diagnoses. Results indicate that DSM diagnoses classified as B personality diagnoses carry the most serious suicide risk. Factors increasing suicide risk in these patients include the presence of co-morbid mood or addiction disorders, severity of childhood sexual […]

Four inpatient groups were identified based on age (< 40 yr. or > 54 yr.) and current suicidal behavior (suicidal, nonsuicidal but depressed) and compared on these variables. Older suicidal inpatients were different formt he other groups of inpatients on very few variables. Older suicide patients were given a diagnosis of depression, made more suicidal […]