Resource Tag: TIME OF SUICIDE

This study examined the risk of suicide in persons diagnosed with dementia during a hospitalization & its relationship to mood disorders. Event-history analysis using time-varying covariates was done of all individuals aged 50 & older living in Denmark during January 1990-December 2000. During the study period, 136 persons who previously had been diagnosed with dementia […]

151 suicide attempt cases monitored & treated at a training hospital’s internal medicine clinic in 2003 were retrospectively evaluated. 59.6% of subjects were male, 70.2% were single, 60.3% were retired or unemployed, 51.75% were privates (non-professional soldiers), & 36.4% were high school graduates. No diagnosis was made in 54.3% of cases while 25.2% had a […]

File copy includes a data supplement table.

This study compared the characteristics of psychiatric & nonpsychiatric suicidal inpatients in a Taiwanese general hospital. Predictors of completed suicide were examined. 110 cases were identified through adverse event reports, 1995-2004. Psychiatric inpatients with suicidal acts were mainly younger females with psychiatric diagnoses & previous suicide attempts. Nonpsychiatric suicidal inpatients had less suicide communication, performed […]

All 12,497 suicides in Taiwan, 2001-2004, were identified from mortality records retrived from the National Health Insurance Database. 95.1% of females & 84.9% of males had been in contact with health care services in the year before their death. Females received significantly more diagnoses of psychiatric disorders & major depression than did males. Such differences […]

The authors examined the effect of a policy change in the Israeli Defense Forces reducing adolescents’ access to firearms on rates of suicide. Following the policy change, suicide rates decreased significantly by 40%. Most of this decrease was due to decrease in suicide using firearms over the weekend. There were no significant changes in rates […]

~

This longitudinal study of recently hospitalized suicidal youth examined parental mental health history in addition to several indices of adolescent functioning as risk factors for time-to-suicide attempt over a 1-year period. 352 adolescents completed self-report & interview assessments within 1 week of hospitalization & 6 weeks, 3, 6, & 12 months post-hospitalization. Multivariable proportional hazards […]

This survey analyzed suicide in Kosova for the period 2000-2008, focusing on 2007-2008. For the year 2000, there was an increase of 122 percent in suicide cases compared to 1983. After 2005, a slight decrease in suicides was noted. Suicides were significantly more prevalent in males than females in both 2007 & 2008. Most suicides […]

This study investigated the course of contact rates of suicide victims with physicians during the year before death. Official suicide data & insurance company data were linked for 317 individuals who died by suicide between 1998-2002. Quarterly contact rates with physicians during the respective last year of life were compared. Contacts with any physicians & […]

Longitudinal categorical data from the Family Transitions Project was used to investigate whether yearly prevalence rates of adolescent suicidal episodes follow different patterns by gender. The sample included 1,248 rural European Americans, ages 11-19. Multiple-group growth models revealed that peak levels of past-year ideation & plans occurred during mid-adolescence for girls, but slowly increased through […]

This article reviews the literature to see if patient suicide can be predicted & prevented; attempts to identify high-risk patients through demographics, diagnoses, medication treatments, & patient social situations; & examines the care-delivery environment such as length of stay & physical surroundings. Methods of suicide & the time during hospitalization when suicide occurs is also […]

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 […]

In this brief article, the authors review the literature on the risk of suicide among men diagnosed with prostate cancer. The risk of suicide is increased, particularly among patients with metastatic disease. Results indicate a need to identify signs of depression & optimize treatment among newly diagnosed patients. (10 refs.) JA

The authors investigated the relationship between the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks & suicide risk in New York City from 1990-2006. The average monthly rate over the study period was 0.56 per 100,000 people. The monthly rate after September 2001 was 0.11 per 100,000 people lower as compared to the rate in the period before. […]

The authors analysed alcohol involvement in 84,005 medically identified live discharges for self-inflicted intentional injuries (typically suicide acts) from hospitals in 20 American states in 1997. Alcohol was involved in 27% of the discharges. Evidence of alcohol was significantly more prevalent in men than women, but generally men drink more than women. Blacks had the […]

334 depressed adolescents who had not responded to a previous trial with a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant were randomized to a switch to another selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or venlafaxine, with or without cognitive behaviour therapy. Self-harm events were assessed by spontaneous report from the first 181 participants & by systematic weekly assessment for […]

~

This study examined the temporal pattern of suicide risk in patients with early psychosis & determined whether discrete periods of significantly elevated risk can be identified up to 24 months after commencing treatment. Suicidaliy ratings collected each month were retrieved for 696 patients treated between December 2002-December 2005. Time-series analysis was performed on suicide risk […]

A matched retrospective case control study was done of 127 patients with depression requiring inpatient care who died by suicide as inpatients or in the 12 months following hospital discharge. Single & multivariable conditional logistic regression identified independent risk & protective factors. A history of deliberate self-harm was a significant risk for suicide in patients […]

To describe the characteristics of & trends in suicides in American national parks, the Centers for Disease Control & the National Park Service analysed reports of suicides & attempted suicides occurring in the parks during 2003-2009. 84 national parks reported 286 suicide events, 68% of which were fatal. The two most common methods were firearms […]

This study describes the social & clinical characteristics of people who had absconded from an inpatient psychiatric ward prior to suicide, including aspects of the clinical care they received. A national clinical survey based on a 10-year (1997-2006) sample of people in England & Wales who died by suicide was done. 469 patients died after […]

This meta-analysis of randomized, placebo-controlled trials compared suicidality in adult patients treated with paroxetine versus placebo. The goal was to identify emergent clinical characteristics of patients with definitive suicidal behaviour. The dataset comprised 14,911 patients from 57 trials. Possible cases of suicidality were identified & blindly reviewed by an expert panel. Overall, there were no […]