Background and Objectives: Suicide is a serious issue, so it needs to be addressed. The purpose of this review study is to determine the prevalence of thoughts and attempts at suicide, and related risk factors among Iranian school and university students. Materials and Methods: This study is a systematic review carried out in April 2022, using different search engines including SID, Magiran, G...

OBJECTIVE To study the association between method of attempted suicide and risk of subsequent successful suicide. DESIGN Cohort study with follow-up for 21-31 years. SETTING Swedish national register linkage study. PARTICIPANTS 48,649 individuals admitted to hospital in 1973-82 after attempted suicide. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Completed suicide, 1973-2003. Multiple Cox regression modelling ...

The extent to which a specific negative life event (NLE) is a triggering factor for a suicide attempt is unknown. The current study used a case-crossover design, an innovative within-subjects design, to quantify the unique effects of recent NLEs on suicide attempts. In an adult sample of 110 recent suicide attempters, a timeline follow-back methodology was used to assess NLEs within the 48 hour...

OBJECTIVES We examined suicide and suicide attempt rates, patterns, and risk factors among White Mountain Apache youths (aged < 25 years) from 2001 to 2006 as the first phase of a community-based participatory research process to design and evaluate suicide prevention interventions. METHODS Apache paraprofessionals gathered data as part of a tribally mandated suicide surveillance system. We c...

INTRODUCTION This survey studies the 10 year psychosocial outcome of 65 adolescents admitted to the Nancy Children's Hospital in 1994 after a suicide attempt. METHOD survey conducted using a self-assessment questionnaire sent to adolescents and their parents. RESULTS The response rate was 55.4%. About seventy per cent (70.5%) of respondents stated they were happy in their affective lives 10...

introduction: suicide is the third cause of mortality in america, second leading cause of death in developed countries, and one of the major health problems. self-harm is self-inflicted damage to one’s self with or without suicidal intent. in the present study, the predictive factors of suicide attempt and non-suicidal self-harm were evaluated in patients referred to emergency department (ed) w...

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a risk factor for suicide attempts, but little is known about NSSI among military personnel and veterans, or about the temporal sequencing of NSSI relative to suicide ideation and attempts. This study evaluates trajectories of suicide ideation, NSSI, and suicide attempts in a sample of 422 military personnel and veterans. Of those with a history of NSSI, 77% al...

This study focused on the reliability and validity of the Columbia Suicide Severity Scale (C-SSRS). Severely delinquent adolescent girls (n = 166) participated in a treatment trial and repeated assessments over time. Lifetime suicide attempt history was measured using the C-SSRS in early adulthood (n = 144; 7-12 years postbaseline). Nonclinician raters showed strong interrater reliability using...

The influences of parental divorce and alcohol abuse on adult offspring lifetime suicide attempt have not been examined in national data. This study analyzed data from the 2001-2002 NESARC to estimate main and interaction effects of parental divorce and alcohol abuse on lifetime suicide attempt. Adjusted for controls, parental divorce and parental alcohol abuse independently increased odds of l...