A semi-structured interview for psychological autopsy in suicide cases

A semi-structured interview for psychological autopsy in suicide cases.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the applicability and the interrater reliability of a Semi-Structured Interview for psychological autopsy in cases of suicide. METHOD The Semi-Structured Interview for Psychological Autopsy (SSIPA) proposed in this paper consists of four modules which evaluate key-topics associated to suicide. In order to evaluate the instrument's applicability, a sample formed by 42 ...

Adaptation and validation of the semi-structured interview for Psychological Autopsy (SSIPA) in Spanish.

INTRODUCTION OBJECTIVES The aim of this work was to adapt and validate into Spanish the Semi-Structured Interview for Psychological Autopsy (SSIPA). METHOD The SSIPA consists of 69 items distributed into four modules: precipitants and/or stressors, motivation, lethality, and intentionality. The original instrument was translated from Portuguese into Spanish and backtranslated by bilinguals...

Suicide in doctors. A psychological autopsy study.

OBJECTIVES Doctors are at higher risk of suicide than many other occupational groups. This study was conducted to investigate factors associated with suicide in doctors. METHOD Psychological autopsy study of 38 working doctors who died by suicide in England and Wales between January 1991 and December 1993. RESULTS Psychiatric illness was present in 25 of the doctors. Depressive illness and ...

A psychological autopsy of a geriatric suicide.

The psychological autopsy: a useful tool for determining proximate causation in suicide cases.

This overview article examines the applications of the psychological autopsy method in determining proximate causation in suicide cases. The article reviews the history of the psychological autopsy and describes its procedure and how it has proved helpful in explicating proximate causation. The five standards currently used by the courts to determine proximate causation in suicide cases are des...