Suicidal behaviour is not lessened by higher treatment rate, study shows
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Is suicidal behaviour increasing among Australian youth?
The rate of suicide of 15- to 19-year-old Australian boys appears to have doubled since 1965. Some of this rise might be due to a trend by coroners to reach a verdict of suicide more frequently than previously. One in seven deaths of teenage boys is now termed suicide. Hospital admissions of boys and girls in Western Australia for attempted suicide doubled in the past decade. These figures indi...
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BACKGROUND Psychiatric history, familial history of suicide attempts, and certain traumatic life events are important predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviour. We examined the epidemiology and genetics of suicidality (i.e. reporting persistent suicidal thoughts or a plan or suicide attempt) in a large community-based sample of MZ and DZ twin pairs. METHOD Diagnostic telephone interviews ...
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U.. I t A I _ I I _ II Jl by J. Wallace McCulloch and Alistair E. Philip Pergamon Press. ?2.50 The severity of the problem of suicidal behaviour is focused by the fact that 'in the world every year, the equivalent of the population of a city such as Edinburgh kills itself and the equivalent of the population of London indulges in some form of non-fatal suicidal behaviour'; it thus warrants a wi...
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The authors of this paper present a review of actual data on the neurobiological background of suicidal behaviour. The results of epidemiological studies suggest that suicidal behaviours have certain genetic background which do not depend on the presence of concomitant mental disorders. The estimated heritability rate of suicide is about 21-50%, while the heritability rate of suicidal ideation ...
متن کاملSuicidal ideation and behaviour.
Suicide is a leading cause of death among Canadian adolescents. The present practice point provides paediatricians and child health professionals with a framework for assessing the adolescent with suicidal thoughts and/or behaviours. The epidemiological context, general considerations and practical suggestions for how to approach the suicidal adolescent are reviewed. Paediatricians can and shou...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7503.1288-b