Resource Tag: KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SUICIDE

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This book presents the biographies of 32 individuals, some more famous than others, who died by suicide. The focus is on those aspects of their lives which might have influenced their choice to die by suicide. The concluding chapter reviews what might be learned about suicide through the study of these cases.

This study evaluated an education programme for frontline nurses on patient suicide prevention & management. The study was done in 2 general hospitals from December 2004-June 2006. A total of 54 registered nurses were assigned to the study group & 56 to the control group. A purposive sample was recruited for focus group interviews. Participants […]

A prospective study was conducted to analyse the spectrum of suicide attempters & completers at Kasturba Hospital in Manipal, India from January 2001-December 2004. There was a total sample of 246 cases, 90 of whom died & 156 who survived their attempt. Men outnumbered women in those who died & more women survived than men. […]

This qualitative study used focus groups to elicit the thoughts of adolescents & parents of adolescents regarding adolescent suicide. 66 adolescents & 30 parents participated in 13 focus groups in Chicago, Illinois & the Kansas City, Kansas area. Both adolescents & parents recognized adolescent suicide as a major problem, but not for their own communities. […]

Using the differentiation between explanations & understanding from philosophy of science as the point of departure, a critical look at the current mainstream suicidological research was launched. An almost exclusive use of quantitative methodology focusing on explanations is demonstrated. This bias in scope & methodology has to a large extent taken the suicidological field into […]

This book has three main chapters, one on the suicidal mind, one on suicidal behaviours, and the last on causes, consequences, & subpopulations. In each chapter, the author describes a number of myths & misunderstood topics, & then dispels or explains them.

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As no scale for assessing beliefs in the inheritance of risk factors for suicide is available, a 22-item scale was constructed, its contents rated by experts in a validation survey & administered to samples of 70 medical & 165 psychology students in Austria. Medical students held stronger beliefs in the genetics of suicide than psychology […]

Knowledge about suicide might be positively correlated with local suicide prevalence. This hypothesis was tested with a sample of 107 medical & social science Estonian undergraduates. Compared (independent group t tests) with a sample of undergraduates from Austria, Estonians presented significantly higher overall knowledge about suicide, particularly concerning demographic & epidemiological facts about suicide but […]

Undergraduate education majors’ knowledge about suciide was evaluated to identify what training they may need about suicide prevention & to explore the hypothesis that individuals previously exposed to suicide in their social context may hold higher suicide-related knowledge than those without. 71 college students completed the 50-item Expanded Revised Facts on Suicide Quiz to examine […]

This study examined the differences between 52 male & 72 female college students in their blaming of parents for a child’s suicide. Ages of the victim were varied to see if this would influence both blaming attitudes & attitudes toward the victim’s mental health. Results revealed men to be more blaming of parents than were […]

This article examines medico-legal & popular interpretations of suicide in early twentieth-century Lima. In this period, physicians & lawyers interpreted suicide though the lens of modern scientific & legal thought & came to challenge the traditional interpretations of the Church, which insisted that suicide was a voluntary act. For ordinary people, medico-legal discourse on suicide […]

Between May 2006-March 2007, the Harvard Injury Control Research Centre conducted telephone interviews with statewide suicide prevention policy representatives & did content analyses of written state suicide prevention plans. Most state groups had a published plan but only nine had implemented activities aimed at reducing access to firearms. This document provides responses to the questions […]

This research investigates the knowledge & myths about suicide among a random sample of 450 undergraduates in Israel & examaines whether they are affected by ethnic origin, gender, & religiosity. The level of Israeli students’ knowledge about suicide is generally good. There are significant differences, however, between the Jewish & Arab students in knowledge about […]

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This study examined what the suicidal process looks like from the point of view of relatives & friends to gain insight into the complex & difficult judgments people have to make when trying to support a distressed individual. Qualitative methods were used to build detailed pictures of 15-20 suicide victims, aged 18-34. Interviews focused on […]

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In this letter to the editor, Berman questions whether the conclusion reached in a study by Bryan & colleagues that the mnemonic IS PATH WARM interfered with the participants’ ability to learn warning signs of suicide is accurate due to the lack of a fair & reasonable test based on understanding the purpose of a […]

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