This short-term prospective study examined general and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)-specific risk and protective factors for suicide attempts in an ethnically diverse sample of LGBT youth (N = 237, 47.7 % male). A structured psychiatric interview assessed clinical depression and conduct disorder symptoms, as well as past and prospective suicide attempts over a 1-year follow-up...

ObjectivesPrevious studies have shown that poor cognitive and social functioning are associated with increased risk of suicide. This study aimed to examine the association between social and cognitive functioning in adolescence and later completed suicide. DesignHistorical prospective cohort study Setting and ParticipantsData from the Israeli Draft Board Register for 756,223 Israeli male adoles...

BACKGROUND Current clinical wisdom is that the vast majority of those who complete suicide suffer from a mental disorder. Uncritical adherence to this belief may limit our understanding and restrict the full range of prevention activities. We aimed to examine the public record for accounts of suicide by men who had been, or were about to be, investigated or apprehended for "sex only" child sex ...

BACKGROUND People with severe mental disorders (SMD) are at higher risk of suicide. However, research into suicide attempts and completed suicide in people with SMD in low- and middle-income countries is mostly limited to patients attending psychiatric facilities where selection bias is likely to be high. METHODS A population-based cohort of 919 people with SMD from rural Ethiopia (who receiv...

abstract background: to investigate the predisposing and precipitating risk factors for suicide ideations and suicide attempts in young and adolescent females, we tried to introduce a holistic model of suicidal behavior in young and adolescent girls. methods: this study is based on the survey studies and was cross-sectional. considering high rates of suicide attempts in provinces of iran, three...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to examine the temporal association between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) prescriptions and suicide-related events in children and adolescents. DESIGN Self-controlled case series. SETTING Electronic health records were used from 479 general practices in The Health Improvement Network (THIN) UK primary care database from...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of coexistent psychiatric morbidity on risk of suicide after a suicide attempt. DESIGN Cohort study with follow-up for 21-31 years. SETTING Swedish national register based study. PARTICIPANTS 39 685 people (53% women) admitted to hospital for attempted suicide during 1973-82. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Completed suicide during 1973-2003. RESULTS A high pr...

conclusions based on the results, improving self-compassion and anger-control skills are suggested as ways to decrease suicide ideation. results the results of the pearson correlation coefficient tests showed that suicide ideation was negatively correlated with self-compassion (r = -0.19; p < 0.05) and mindfulness components (r = -0.20; p < 0.05), but it was positively correlated with self-judg...