OBJECTIVES To report age-standardised rates and methods of suicide by health professionals, and to compare these with suicide rates for other occupations. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective mortality study. SETTING, PARTICIPANTS All intentional self-harm cases recorded by the National Coronial Information System during the period 2001-2012 were initially included. Cases were excluded if the person ...

objective: although in international studies, it has been reported to be the sixth most common method of suicide, self-immolation is reported to be one of the most common methods of suicide in iran. considering the differences in epidemiological and psychiatric characteristics of suicide in different societies, we aimed to determine the psychological characteristics of those patients who attemp...

BACKGROUND Attitudes and knowledge about suicide may influence psychiatrists' management of suicidal patients but there has been little research about this issue in China. METHODS We used the Scale of Public Attitudes about Suicide (SPAS)--a 47-item scale developed and validated in China--to assess knowledge about suicide and seven specific attitudes about suicide in a sample of 187 psychiatr...

BACKGROUND Suicide is an important public health problem worldwide, especially due to an increasing rate of suicides committed by violent methods. This study compared and assessed the methods used in suicide attempts (but no completed suicides) as undertaken by men and women and investigated the possible role of gender in the selection of suicide method. MATERIAL/METHODS The study was conduct...

OBJECTIVES This article compares suicide in the immigrant and Canadian-born populations. DATA SOURCES The suicide data are from the Canadian Vital Statistics Data Base and the World Health Statistics Annual of the World Health Organization. The socio-demographic information used to determine denominators for suicide rates in Canada comes from the Census of Population. ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES ...

Suicide is a devastating tragedy associated with social, cultural and psychological factors. It takes approximately 1,060 lives in the Republic of Croatia each year. We retrospectively reviewed all cases referred to in the Registrar office and Police Department at Osijek County from 1986 to 2000. The cases of suicide totaled 1,017. All of the cases were analyzed as to age, gender, marital statu...

This study examined the 155 attempted suicides and 50 fatal suicides of school children in Hong Kong for the three school years in the period September 1991 to August 1994. The annual attempted suicide rate is estimated at 2.7 and 8.4 per 100,000 for male and female schoolchildren respectively. The male to female ratio is about 1:3. The annual suicide rate of the school children is estimated at...

OBJECTIVE Research suggests that being unable to generate solutions to problems in times of distress may contribute to suicidal thoughts and behavior, and that depression is associated with problem-solving deficits. This study examined active and passive problem solving as moderators of the association between depressive symptoms and future suicidal ideation among suicide attempters and nonatte...

Purpose: Suicidal behavior can be regarded as the consequence of the co-occurence of a personality characteristic underlying vulnerability and of state-dependent psychiatric problems. Further research has shown that personality characteristics including impulsivity and a disturbed regulation of anxiety or aggression may represent risk factors for suicidal behavior. The purpose of this study was...