Year: 1995 Source: Crisis, v.16, no.4, (1995), p.162-175 SIEC No: 19950569

The research plans of the Department of Mental Health of the National Public Health Institute in Finland are outlined. Study areas will include: 1) specific questions about suicide using the database, “Suicide in Finland in 1987”; 2) risk factors for repetition or subsequent completed suicide in Finland & other European centres; 3) following up a new representative sample of suicidal adolescents; & 4) testing the efficacy of depression treatment as a means of suicide prevention. (51 refs.)