Effect of phone call versus face-to-face follow-up on recurrent suicide attempts prevention in individuals with a history of multiple suicide attempts

Individuals with single versus multiple suicide attempts over 10years of prospective follow-up.

BACKGROUND The study attempted to identify characteristics that differentiate multiple suicide attempters from single attempters in individuals with personality disorders (PDs) and/or major depression. METHOD Participants were 431 participants enrolled in the Collaborative Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders from July 1996 to June 2008. Suicide attempts were assessed with the Longitud...

Rumination and Lifetime History of Suicide Attempts

400 This project was supported in part by an Internship Research Grant by the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium and by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant HD048664 awarded to B.E. Gibb. Address correspondence to Marie Grassia, Department of Psychology, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. E-mail: [email protected]....

Suicide deaths and suicide attempts.

OBJECTIVES This article examines suicide deaths among Canadians aged 10 or older between 1979 and 1998. It also examines hospital records for 1998/99 to provide some insight into suicide attempts. DATA SOURCES Data are mainly from the Vital Statistics Database, the Hospital Morbidity Database, and the Person-oriented Information Database. Supplementary data are from the Adult Correctional Ser...

Effect of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention Program on Suicide Attempts Among Youths.

IMPORTANCE Youth suicide prevention is a major public health priority. Studies documenting the effectiveness of community-based suicide prevention programs in reducing the number of nonlethal suicide attempts have been sparse. OBJECTIVE To determine whether a reduction in suicide attempts among youths occurs following the implementation of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention Pro...

[Suicide and suicide attempts in old age].