Nonlinear Change Processes During Psychotherapy Characterize Patients Who Have Made Multiple Suicide Attempts

Coping Strategies in Patients Who Had Suicide Attempts.

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to investigate coping strategies suggested to be a determinant of suicide attempt and to compare them with coping strategies of healthy volunteers. METHODS This study was conducted on 50 patients who had suicide attempts within the past two months and 52 healthy volunteers who did not have any suicide attempt. They were evaluated with the Turkish version...

Suicide risk assessment: a review of risk factors for suicide in 100 patients who made severe suicide attempts. Evaluation of suicide risk in a time of managed care.

A study of 100 patients who made a severe suicide attempt suggested that the managed care criteria often applied for approving admission to hospitals for potentially suicidal patients were not, in fact, predictive of features seen in patients who actually made such attempts. Severe anxiety, panic attacks, a depressed mood, a diagnosis of major affective disorder, recent loss of an interpersonal...

An outgoing teenager who attempts suicide.

Psychiatric disorders in male prisoners who made near-lethal suicide attempts: case-control study.

BACKGROUND Although male prisoners are five times more likely to die by suicide than men of a similar age in the general population, the contribution of psychiatric disorders is not known. AIMS To investigate the association of psychiatric disorders with near-lethal suicide attempts in male prisoners. METHOD A matched case-control study of 60 male prisoners who made near-lethal suicide atte...

Suicide attempts in bipolar patients.

BACKGROUND Between 25% to 50% of patients with bipolar disorder make suicide attempts during their lives, but there are some controversies about factors related to suicide attempts in this group of patients. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between suicide attempts and the predictive factors previously described in the literature. METHOD The sample included all 169 pati...