Resource Tag: LETHALITY RATING

This study assessed the personal & clinical features of a sample of patients with schizophrenia who had made highly lethal suicide attempts. 18 of 39 subjects had made a high lethality suicide attempt in the 6-month period before assessment while the others had not engaged in any suicidal behaviour. Diagnoses & suicidal intent were evaluated […]

The authors genotyped the 5HTTLPR ploymorphism in 185 unrelated patients with schizophrenia from a French Caucasian population. The genotype frequencies significantly differed between patients who made violent suicide attempts & both those who attempted suicide with a nonviolent method & those who never attempted suicide. The genotypes containing the low activity “short” allele were significantly […]

Gender differences in suicidal behavior were examined in a sample of 344 South Koreans who had attempted suicide. Significantly more women than men were admitted to emergency rooms due to attempted suicide during the study period, August 2003-December 2006. The male attempters were older & had a higher rate of employment than the females. Depression […]

A 3-year nationwide, population-based data set was used to explore methods of suicide & possible contributing factors among cancer patients in Taiwan. A total of 1,065 cancer inpatients who died by suicide were included. The regression shows those who had genitourinary cancer were 0.55 times less likely to use violent methods for suicide than those […]

In this editorial, the author reviews a study by Runeson et al (2010) in which they found the risk of completed suicide among a sample of Swedish patients varied considerably according to the methods used in earlier attempts. Their study has important implications for assessment & aftercare but caution is suggested in interpreting the results. […]

In this editorial, the authors discuss a study by Sinyor et al (2010) which described the apparent failure of the Bloor Street Viaduct in Toronto to reduce suicide by jumping. Limitations of their findings are reviewed. Substitution of methods is also discussed. A brief discussion of the efficacy of means restriction, especially among children & […]

The outcomes of 1348 Japanese individuals who attempted suicide & visited the critical care center or the psychiatric emergency department of the hospital were categorized into 3 groups. Physical, mental, & social characteristics were compared. The hospitalized groups, particularly those hospitalized in the critical care centre, were found to have biopsychosocially serious factors with regard […]

The authors assessed correlates of suicide attempt lethality in older men & women. A cross-sectional study enrolled 125 older adults with major depression & a suicide attempt admitted to community & university hospitals. Attempt lethality was higher in older (70+) than in younger (50-69 years) men & lower in older than in younger women. Association […]

This study characterized the severity of attempted suicide by extracting components of suicidal intent & analyzing levels of intent by gender, age, & variables indicating the severity of the attempt. Data on 469 Estonians who attempted suicide were collected & a revised version of the Pierce Suicidal Intent Scale was used. The level of suicidal […]

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The aim of this study was to ascertain suicide seasonality in the Greek population & to associate this seasonal variation with age, gender, & suicide method. The deaths caused by violent suicide (not self-poisoning) were studied. Statistically significant suicide seasonality was established with a peak in May. This seasonal variation is attributed mainly to males. […]

Bipolar patients were classified as high- or low-lethality attempters. High-lethality attempts required inpatient medical treatment. Mixed effects logistic regression models & permutation analyses examined correlations between lethality, number, & order of attempts. High-lethality attempters reported greater suicidal intent & more previous attempts. Multiple attempters showed no pattern of incremental lethality increase with subsequent attempts, but […]

This study inveistgated the reduced incidence for initial, repeated, or severe suicide attempts with age in suicide victims & controls by gender. The records of 100 suicide victims & matched controls with severe depression admitted to Lund University Hospital, Sweden between 1956-1969 were evaluated & subjects monitored up to 2006. The occurrence of suicide attempts […]

This study investigated the clinical features, precipitating stressors, & the correlates of lethality in 357 suicide attempters sent to an emergency room in a general hospital in Taiwan from November 2002-June 2005. The proportion of females was much higher than that of males. Suicide attempts peaked at 20-29-years-old in females & 30-39-years-old in males. Females […]

This study was designed to determine if there is a relationship between the degree of suicide intent & the lethality of means used by those who attempted suicide. 74 suicide attempters admitted to emergency rooms in a northeastern area of China were studied using structured interviews. 35 of the 74 subjects said love/marriage issues precipitated […]

Medicinal self-poisoning presentations by 18,383 residents of Ontario, age 12 & older, who presented to a hospital emergency department between April 2001-March 2002 were characterized by the agents taken, identification of deliberate intent, & medical severity. Distinct age-gender differences were found. Females, age 12-64, were identified as more deliberate more often than their male counterparts. […]

In this letter to the editor, the authors comment on an article by Miller (2006) in which a discrepancy between rates of suicide in China & rates of depression was described. Eddleston & Gunnell assert that by concentrating on fatal self-harm rather than all acts of self-harm, Miller missed an opportunity to understand the discrepancy. […]

Recent suicide attempters with & without a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder were compared. 180 recent suicide attempters, recruited in the emergency department, participated in extensive interviews. Suicide attempters with borderline personality disorder displayed greater severity of overall psychopathology, depression, hopelessness, suicide ideation, past suicide attempts, & had poorer social problem solving skills than those […]

This study investigated violent & nonviolent suicidal acts in men & women with severe depression. The records of 98 Swedish suicide victims admitted to hospital between 1956-1969 were evaluated. Subjects were monitored up to 1998. The female group displayed a significant linear trend for nonviolent completed suicide after one suicide attempt, & even more significantly, […]

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