Background: The incidence of suicide attempts has been increasing in recent years. Presenting a group of patients who attempted suicide, underwent ventilatory support and got postintubation airway stenosis, may help us to better understand and prevent this complication. Materials and methods: Among patients who referred to us for treatment of PIAS, those who were intubated for suicide attemp...

BACKGROUND Although sleep disorders are a risk factor for suicidal behavior little research has examined why sleep disorders confer suicide risk. The present study examined the relation between two sleep disorders, insomnia symptoms and nightmares, and suicide risk in the context of Joiner's interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide (IPTS). METHODS The present study utilized two large sam...

OBJECTIVES To establish the lifetime prevalence rates of suicide ideations, plans and attempts, and to identify the conditional risks of suicide attempts following the prior onset of suicide ideation or planning. METHOD A representative sample extracted from the National Population Register of non-institutionalized residents, aged 21 or older, were interviewed at home between May 2003 and Apr...

OBJECTIVE Suicide is a major public health concern. This study aimed to determine the predictors of repeated suicide attempts, focusing on whether lethality level of the suicidal method predicts the risk of subsequent suicide attempts. METHODS All consecutive individuals (N=2,070) with an episode of nonfatal self-harm registered in a surveillance database provided by the Department of Health ...