Patient-Identified Priorities Leading to Attempted Suicide

Attempted suicide: factors leading to hospitalization.

OBJECTIVE This study analyzes how sociodemographic and clinical characteristics influence the treatment decision for patients referred to a university hospital emergency room (ER) owing to attempted suicide. METHOD Using a cross-sectional design, we monitored all patients admitted to a university hospital ER after attempting suicide, over a 3-year period (n = 404). Treatment decisions were ca...

Suicide and attempted suicide

Accurate prediction of suicide risk remains a challenge, in its prevention. Many people with psychiatric disorders do not manifest suicidal behaviour, suggesting the importance of diathesis, or susceptibility to suicide, in addition to associated disorders. At present there are no biomarkers to predict suicidal behaviour. The authors of this article have attempted to describe the neurobiology o...

Suicide and Attempted Suicide

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Attempted suicide.

This study describes the changing patterns of adult self-poisoning in East Cheshire between 1970 and 1975. Six hundred and ninety episodes were analysed. It was found that the percentage of acute medical admissions due to self-poisoning increased during the five years: it doubled for females and trebled for males. The average annual incidence of self-poisoning was one per 600 q# th$ population,...

Adolescent suicide and attempted suicide.