Introduction: Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death among adolescents 15 to 19 years of age and is the third leading cause of death among adolescents aged 15 – 24 years in the World. Adolescent suicide has become an issue of increasing concern over the past twenty five years. Objectives: To assess the knowledge & attitude of adolescents towards suicide, to find out relationship...

BACKGROUND Suicide is the second leading cause of death for young Canadians (10-19 years of age)--a disturbing trend that has shown little improvement in recent years. Our objective was to examine suicide trends among Canadian children and adolescents. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of standardized suicide rates using Statistics Canada mortality data for the period spanning fro...

OBJECTIVE Lethality of the chosen method during a suicide attempt is a strong risk factor for completion of suicide. We examined whether annual changes in the pattern of suicide methods is related to annual changes in suicide rates among older adults in South Korea and Japan. METHODS We analyzed annual the World Health Organization data on rates and methods of suicide from 2000 to 2011 in Sou...

OBJECTIVE Multifaceted evidence (family, twin, adoption, molecular genetic, geographic and surname studies of suicide) suggests genetic risk factors for suicide. Migrant studies are also informative in this context, but underused. In particular, a meta-analysis of the associations of immigrant (IMM) and country-of-birth (COB) suicide rates is unavailable. METHOD Thirty-three studies, reportin...

BACKGROUND Social factors have been shown to be predictors of suicide. It is not known whether these factors vary between countries. AIMS To present a first European overview of socio-economic inequalities in suicide mortality among men and women. METHOD We used a prospective follow-up of censuses matched with vital statistics in ten European populations. Directly standardised rates of suic...

BACKGROUND Suicide prevention is one of the priorities in policies of Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME). The suicide prevention program had two main parts of identifying and treatment of the depressed and suicide high risk individuals by Primary Health Care (PHC) network. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the results of integration of the program into PHC network ...

OBJECTIVE Suicide attempts are a major public health problem. This study aimed to investigate the lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation and suicide attempts in Manisa city centre. Risk factors related to suicide ideations and attempts were also studied. METHOD This study was carried out in Manisa city centre. Using cluster and systematic samples, data were collected from 1086 persons 15-65 ...

This paper utilizes existing statistics on adolescent suicide to examine adolescent suicide trends and patterns in Hong Kong for the period 1980 to 2003. Several trends and patterns could be revealed from the analyses. First, there was a gradual rising trend where adolescent suicide rates in the 1990s and the early 2000s were higher than those in the 1980s. Second, suicide rates for adolescents...