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Background Research suggests that being exposed to the suicide of others increases risk subsequent suicidal or self-harming thoughts behaviours. What is less clear whether this applies adolescents, and if exceeds following other causes death, which has implications on prevention approaches. This study aimed systematically review evidence adolescent bereavement experiences by different address g...

Abstract Objective To examine prevalence, demographic, and incident factors associated with opioid-positivity in Illinois suicide decedents who died by causes other than poisoning. Method Cross-sectional study of Illinois’ occurring between January 2015 December 2017. Data come from the National Violent Death Reporting System. We used Chi-square tests to compare decedent circumstance characteri...

there has been a great deal of reseacrh on the epidemiologic indicators and correlates of attempted suicide in different countries. however, the number of local researches in iran has been scanty. in a cross sectional study, during a one year period, from june 22, 1991 to june 21, 1992, all consecutive referrals for suicide attempt to three centers which covered all referrals due to self poison...

BACKGROUND Repeated self-harm is relatively common and is linked with an elevated risk of eventual suicide. There has been no study of this involving a large sample from the Far East. AIMS To estimate the risk over the medium term of non-fatal repetition of self-harm and identify predictive factors in those carrying out self-harm. METHOD A total of 970 individuals who had self-harmed were r...

Patients with bipolar disorder are at very high risk for suicidal ideation, non-fatal suicidal behaviors and suicide and are frequently treated with antidepressants. However, no prospective, randomized, controlled study specifically evaluating an antidepressant on suicidality in bipolar disorder has yet been completed. Indeed, antidepressants have not yet been shown to reduce suicide attempts o...

OBJECTIVE To identify gender differences in violent deaths in terms of incidence, circumstances, and methods of death. DESIGN Analysis of surveillance data. SETTING North Carolina, a state of 8.6 million residents on the eastern seaboard of the US. SUBJECTS 1674 North Carolina residents who died from violence in the state during 2004. METHODS Information on violent deaths was collected ...