BACKGROUND Because psychiatric disorders are risk factors for suicide, psychiatric consultation should be an essential element of suicide prevention among individuals with a high risk of suicide. The aim of the present study was to compare the characteristics of individuals who had or had not received psychiatric consultation before they attempted suicide in Japan. METHODS Clinical records we...

BACKGROUND Suicide by organophosphorus poisoning is common in India. Study of factors associated with lethality may suggest methods for prevention. METHODS Severity of symptoms, biochemical manifestation of poisoning, degree of lethality and the outcome were studied with an aim to explore the modifiable factors associated with lethality and to discuss preventability. Clinical variables were c...

This paper investigates whether declines in suicide by insecticide poisoning India following a national ban on endosulfan 2011were associated with changes other methods of and total rates. Method-specific rates between 2001–2014 were calculated using National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data sex, age group region, observed compared to expected for the period post-2011. There an estimated 20,146...

OBJECTIVES Doctors are at higher risk of suicide than many other occupational groups. This study was conducted to investigate factors associated with suicide in doctors. METHOD Psychological autopsy study of 38 working doctors who died by suicide in England and Wales between January 1991 and December 1993. RESULTS Psychiatric illness was present in 25 of the doctors. Depressive illness and ...

Delayed neuropsychiatric sequelae (DNS) after acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a complication of CO intoxication. Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy is one of the only established treatments for CO poisoning, but as there is no specific treatment for DNS, the prognosis of DNS patients is generally poor. A 40-year-old male patient, following attempted suicide by CO poisoning, was referred to...

BACKGROUND Up to 2% of suicides in young people may occur in clusters i.e., close together in time and space. In early 2008 unprecedented attention was given by national and international news media to a suspected suicide cluster among young people living in Bridgend, Wales. This paper investigates the strength of statistical evidence for this apparent cluster, its size, and temporal and geogra...

BACKGROUND Male suicide rates continued to increase in Scotland when rates in England and Wales declined. Female rates decreased, but at a slower rate than in England and Wales. Previous work has suggested higher than average rates in some rural areas of Scotland. This paper describes trends in suicide and undetermined death in Scotland by age, gender, geographical area and method for 1981 - 19...

Poisoning deaths are a major public health concern in India because of intentional consumption toxic substancesto commit suicide. related mortality is huge compared to the morbidity our country. This one ofthe reasons for more number poisoning cases autopsy work. Undoubtedly, very essentialtool knowing exact cause death all these cases. The gross and histopathological examination postmortemspec...

Background and Aims Persons with substance use disorders (SUDs) are at elevated risk of suicide death. We identified novel factors interactions that predict among men women SUD using machine learning. Design Case–cohort study. Setting Denmark. Participants The sample was restricted to persons their first diagnosis during 1995 2015. Cases were who died by in Denmark 2015 (n = 2774) the compariso...