Resource Tag: SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

This study characterizes the common injuries incurred by elderly trauma victims & identifies the most frequent complications & outcomes. Elderly trauma cases accounted for 125 of 460 trauma admissions over 3 years (March 2000-April 2003) to an academic hospital in Kingston, Ontario. 3% of admissions were due to suicide or self-inflicted injury. Patients who suffered […]

Nationally representative data from Mexico are presented on the lifetime & 12-month prevalence of the onset of suicide ideation, suicidal plans, & suicide attempt as well as associated DSM-IV psychiatric disorders & service utilization. Data are from the Mexican National Comorbidity Survey which was carried out in 2001-2003 with a sample of 5,782 respondents, age […]

The authors comment on an article by Thombs & Bresnick (2008) in which they reported data from the American Burn Association National Burn Repository found no difference in mortality or length of stay in patients whose injuries were self-inflicted compared with those whose burns were caused by accident. (16 refs.)

This study examined the effects of body mass index on suicide risk among American men & women. Data was analyzed from the combined 1986-1994 National Health Interview Surveys linked to the 1986-2002 Multiple Cause of Death file. Survival analysis indicated that for each 5 kilograms/meter squared increase in body mass index, the risk of suicide […]

With new surveillance of self-harm data from the Centers for Disease Control, the authors examination found: (1) mortality among self-harmers fits an exponential function of age; & (2) the logarithmic difference between female & male suicide mortality increases in direct proportion to age from puberty to menopause. The mortality exponential function of age is a […]

319 Olmsted County residents meeting criteria for schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder seen at the Mayo Clinic between 1950-1980 were followed-up until February 2005. At the end of follow-up, 44% of patients had died. 3% of these deaths were due to suicide. In 1975, Tsuang & colleagues showed mortality in people with schizophrenia & later, those […]

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Repetition of deliberate self-harm (DSH) is common. Some patients repeat multiple times. We have investigated the characteristics of repeaters, and mortality in three groups of DSH patients by repetition status. Data collected by the Oxford Monitoring System for Attempted Suicide were used to examine the pattern of repetition of DSH patients presenting to a general […]

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393 suicide attempters were categorized on the basis of their reaction to having survived their attempt (glad to be alive, ambivalent, wished they were dead. They were followed up for 5-10 years to determine whether they eventually died by suicide. A survival analysis found that subjects who said they wished they had died were 2.5 […]

This study was done to estimate the incidence of repetition of suicide attempt, suicide & all deaths, & to analyse the influence of psychiatric illness & sociodemographic factors on these. The study is a Danish register-based survival analysis. The average follow-up period for suicide attempters was 3.88 years, during which 271 (10.37%) of them died. […]

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The authors conducted a systematic review & meta-analysis of randomized trials to investigate the effect of lithium, compared to placebo & other active treatments, on the risk of suicide, deliberate self-harm, & all-cause mortality in patients with mood disorder. 32 randomized, controlled trials were eligible for inclusion in the review. Patients who received lithium were […]

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