Characteristics of Inpatients Who Survive Suicide Attempts

Characteristics of individuals who make impulsive suicide attempts.

BACKGROUND Previous research has identified only a few variables that have been associated with making an impulsive suicide attempt. The aim of the current study was to compare individuals who made an impulsive suicide attempt with those who made a premeditated attempt on both previously examined and novel characteristics. METHOD Participants were classified as making an impulsive or premedit...

An outgoing teenager who attempts suicide.

Suicide attempts and domestic violence among women psychiatric inpatients.

Objective. Previous clinical observations, as well as empirical studies in fairly unique samples, suggest that there may be a relationship between domestic-violence victimization and suicide attempts. We wished to examine this relationship among psychiatric women inpatients. Methods. In this study among psychiatric inpatients, we compared women with versus without suicide attempts with regard t...

Characteristics of impulsive suicide attempts and attempters.

Suicide attempts often are impulsive, yet little is known about the characteristics of impulsive suicide. We examined impulsive suicide attempts within a population-based, case-control study of nearly lethal suicide attempts among people 13-34 years of age. Attempts were considered impulsive if the respondent reported spending less than 5 minutes between the decision to attempt suicide and the ...

PS271. Characteristics of Adolescents Who Visit the Emergency Department Following Suicide Attempts

Introduction: There have been multiple explorations for the finding of biological markers of suicide. Some studies indicated the association of neurophysiological markers with suicidal ideation (SI). In previous studies, antidepressant treatment-emergent SI was associated with theta value in midline right frontal region, and pretreatment assessment of frontal quantitative EEG (QEEG) may be asso...