BACKGROUND Suicidal thought is a risk factor and a stage in the suicidal process from planning to attempting and dying by suicide. To date, studies on suicidal thought in the general population, especially in Asian communities, have been limited. METHOD The WHO SUPRE-MISS (the multisite intervention study on suicidal behaviours) community survey questionnaire was filled in for 2,280 randomly ...

OBJECTIVE To explore prevalence and patterns of suicidal attempts in persons with anorexia nervosa (AN). METHODS Participants were the first 432 persons (22 male, 410 female) enrolled in the NIH funded Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa Collaborative Study. All participants had current or lifetime AN. The participants ranged in age from 16 to 76 (mean = 30.4, SD = 11.3). Suicidal behavior and inten...

Previous studies indicate relationships between borderline personality disorder, characterized by chronic selfharm behaviour, and somatic preoccupation. Therefore, we hypothesized a relationship between a history of suicide attempts and multiple somatic symptoms in the context of a medical review of systems (ROS). Participants were male and female outpatients, aged 18 or older, seen in a reside...

BACKGROUND Seasonal changes and climatic factors like ambient temperature, sunlight duration and rainfall can influence suicidal behavior. METHODS This study analyses the relationship between seasonal changes and climatic variations and suicide attempts in 2131 young patients in Istanbul, Turkey. RESULTS In our study sample, there was an association between suicide attempts in youths and se...