PURPOSE This study examined the association between non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicide attempts among Chinese adolescents and college students. METHODS A total sample of 2013 Chinese students were randomly selected from five schools in Wuhan, China, including 1101 boys and 912 girls with the age ranging between 10 and 24 years. NSSI, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and depressive...

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...

AIM OF THE STUDY Because of their importance for clinical toxicology, developments of sub-stance abuse reported to the Poisons Information Centre (PIC) Erfurt were investigated and compared to other reasons of human exposures. METHODS A retrospective analysis of all human exposures (exposures of humans to substances in abuse, accidental and unknown circumstances, and suicide attempts) (n=125,...

objective: suicide represented 1.8% of the total global burden of disease in1998 and it will increase to 2.4% in 2020. we performed a cross sectional study to assess the prevalence of suicide ideation, attempt and its associated factors. method: we designed a cross sectional study in mahan and bardsir cities, kerman province, iran. based on the multistage cluster sampling, 860subjects aged 15 a...

This study examined factors associated with suicide attempts among those with schizophrenia (n = 101) versus those without (n = 21,643) in a representative sample of noninstitutionalized Canadians. The lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts among persons with schizophrenia was 39.2% versus 2.8% of nonafflicted individuals. After adjusting for sociodemographics, childhood adversities, substance...

OBJECTIVE To document mortality in a consecutive series of 302 individuals who made medically serious suicide attempts and were followed-up for 5 years. METHOD All sources of mortality were examined in a 5 year prospective study of 302 individuals who made medically serious suicide attempts. Mortality data were obtained by checks with the national mortality database and, for suicide and accid...

This study explores the relationship between church-based informal social support and lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation and attempts within a representative national sample of African American and Black Caribbean adults. Characteristics of church-based social support networks, as well as emotional support and negative interaction with church members were examined in relation to lifetime s...

Suicide attempts are more common in adolescence than in any other time in life, despite the low prevalence of actual suicide deaths among adolescents. Studies of adolescent suicide risk tend to focus on factors such as psychiatric diagnosis--particularly depression--and history of previous suicide attempts in predicting risk of future suicidal behavior. However, given that a large number of ado...

OBJECTIVE There are no previous studies about the association of childhood bullying behavior with later suicide attempts and completed suicides among both sexes. The aim was to study associations between childhood bullying behaviors at age 8 years and suicide attempts and completed suicides up to age 25 years in a large representative population-based birth cohort. METHOD The sample includes ...

Despite evidence that children of male war veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at particularly high risk for behavior problems, very little is currently known about suicidal behaviors in this population of youth. This study aimed to examine the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of suicide attempts among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescent offspring of ...