Suicide Attempt as a Risk Factor for Completed Suicide: Even More Lethal Than We Knew

Suicide Attempt: Risk Factors & Family Function

Introduction: Suicide resulting of psychological and social disturbances. Family, as an intermediate institute, has a bilateral role; on one hand provides a protective factor for health. Meanwhile, family malfunctions work as a risk factor in suicide. This research is performed to study family risk factors and functioning among suicide attempted. ...

Alcohol-Related Risk of Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempt, and Completed Suicide: A Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND Several original studies have investigated the effect of alcohol use disorder (AUD) on suicidal thought and behavior, but there are serious discrepancies across the studies. Thus, a systematic assessment of the association between AUD and suicide is required. METHODS We searched PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus until February 2015. We also searched the Psycinfo web site and journ...

Completed suicide after a suicide attempt: a 37-year follow-up study.

OBJECTIVE Attempted suicide is the strongest known predictor of completed suicide. However, suicide risk declines over time after an attempt, and it is unclear how long the risk persists. Risk estimates are almost exclusively based on studies of less than 10 years of follow-up. METHOD The authors followed a cohort of 100 consecutive self-poisoned patients in Helsinki in 1963, for whom forensi...

Akathisia as a risk factor for suicide.

SUICIDE PREVENTION Media coverage as a risk factor in suicide

A total of 293 findings from 42 studies on the impact of publicized suicide stories in the media on the incidence of suicide in the real world were analyzed by logistic regression analysis. Studies measuring the effect of either an entertainment or political celebrity suicide story were 14.3 times more likely to find a copycat effect than studies that did not. Studies based on a real as opposed...