ObjectivesPrevious studies have shown that poor cognitive and social functioning are associated with increased risk of suicide. This study aimed to examine the association between social and cognitive functioning in adolescence and later completed suicide. DesignHistorical prospective cohort study Setting and ParticipantsData from the Israeli Draft Board Register for 756,223 Israeli male adoles...

Background: Dissociation is a symptom that can be related to traumatic childhood events. Dissociation in some cases is categorized in a distinct subgroup from other psychiatric disorders. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of dissociative experiences in patients who have attempted suicide and who have referred to an eme...

Because posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the few psychological conditions that predict suicidal behavior among those who think about suicide, many patients with PTSD present clinically with elevated suicide risk. Expert consensus and practice guidelines recommend against trauma-focused treatments for patients with elevated suicide risk, however. Research aimed at understanding the...

The recent paper by Gunnell et al 1 and the accompanying editorial by Pitman & Caine 2 clearly outline the practice and principles of a contemporary approach to suicide prevention in mental health settings. However, I do not think the policy initiative that every patient with a serious mental illness or a recent episode of self-harm should be followed up within a week of discharge is really a h...

Filicide‐suicide is the killing of a child older than 12 months, followed by parental complete or incomplete suicide. In most cases, motive maternal filicide‐suicide altruistic. This article reports case twin filicide depressed mother and also highlights risk in multiple birth mothers.

431 ABSTRACT Most suicide victims see a health professional shortly before their death; yet, at present, clinicians have no tools for identifying those at acute risk. Clinical instruments valuable in predicting suicide over a 10year period were not effective in predicting completed suicides within a period of 6 months. In fact, the difference between chronic and imminent suicide risk has only r...

IMPORTANCE Older adults have high rates of sleep disturbance, die by suicide at disproportionately higher rates compared with other age groups, and tend to visit their physician in the weeks preceding suicide death. To our knowledge, to date, no study has examined disturbed sleep as an independent risk factor for late-life suicide. OBJECTIVE To examine the relative independent risk for suicid...

Older adults are among the highest at risk for completing suicide, and they are more likely to seek mental health services from providers outside of traditional mental health care, but providers across the spectrum of care have limited training in suicide risk assessment and management and particularly lack training in suicide prevention for older adults. An educational program was developed to...

BACKGROUND Suicide is the primary cause of unnatural death in Spain, and suicide re-attempts a major economic burden worldwide. The risk factors for re-attempt and suicide after an index suicide attempt are different. This study aims to investigate risk factors for re-attempt and suicide after an index suicide attempt. METHODS This observational study is part of a one-year telephone managemen...

BACKGROUND Approximately 32,000 people take their own lives every year in the United States. In Kentucky, suicide mortality rates have been steadily increasing since 1999. Few studies in the United States have assessed spatial clustering of suicides. The purpose of this study was to identify high-risk clusters of suicide at the county level in Kentucky and assess the characteristics of those su...