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Sex, suicide, and doctors.
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متن کاملSuicide in doctors. A psychological autopsy study.
OBJECTIVES Doctors are at higher risk of suicide than many other occupational groups. This study was conducted to investigate factors associated with suicide in doctors. METHOD Psychological autopsy study of 38 working doctors who died by suicide in England and Wales between January 1991 and December 1993. RESULTS Psychiatric illness was present in 25 of the doctors. Depressive illness and ...
متن کاملEnhancing the role of doctors in preventing suicide.
The aftermath of suicide is devastating. At a personal level, it is often painfully experienced by the survivors who are emotionally tied to the victim of suicide directly. It is well known that 90% of suicide deaths are by people suffering from mental illness or substance abuse, problems for which a vast majority of such individuals are untreated.1 A substantial proportion of people with psych...
متن کاملSuicide in medical doctors and nurses: an analysis of the Queensland Suicide Register.
This study aimed to estimate the risk for suicide among medical doctors and nurses compared with the education professions and the general population and to describe the characteristics of their suicides. Suicide cases and rates in the age group of 25 to 64 years were analyzed using the Queensland Suicide Register (QSR) during 1990 to 2007. The male medical doctors had lower suicide rates than ...
متن کاملSuicide prevention and intervention: a call to all doctors.
Why do people take their own lives? To survive is the most basic human instinct; to take one’s own life is against this instinct. Imagine you are standing on the rooftop of a tall building and there is nothing between you and the fall to death! The normal response is fear and the step to take is to walk back. What does it take to overcome that fear and to jump down? The most important and commo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.307.6901.447