OBJECTIVE In March 2004 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned physicians and patients regarding increased risk of suicide with 10 newer antidepressant drugs. Available data leave considerable uncertainty regarding actual risk of suicide attempt and death by suicide during antidepressant treatment. The authors used population-based data to evaluate the risk of suicide death and seri...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that people bereaved by suicide are less likely to receive formal or informal support than people bereaved by other causes of sudden death. DESIGN National cross-sectional study. SETTING Adults working or studying at any UK higher education institution (HEI) in 2010. PARTICIPANTS A total of 3432 eligible respondents aged 18-40 years bereaved by the sudden ...

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.

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...

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...

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a risk factor for suicide attempts, but little is known about NSSI among military personnel and veterans, or about the temporal sequencing of NSSI relative to suicide ideation and attempts. This study evaluates trajectories of suicide ideation, NSSI, and suicide attempts in a sample of 422 military personnel and veterans. Of those with a history of NSSI, 77% al...

BACKGROUND Suicide rates generally increase with age. A recent cross-national study, using one-year cross-sectional data on suicide rates identified regional and cross-national patterns for elderly suicide rates. However, findings from studies using one-year cross-sectional data on suicide rates may be open to bias because of random year on year fluctuations in elderly suicide rates. METHODS ...

Objective: Suicide is a major public health problem with little information about the role of personality characteristics of people who chemically commit suicide. The present study aimed to investigate the role of personality traits in the chemical suicide attempters. Methods: In a case-control study, 100 patients with attempted suicide selected by convenience sampling were comp...

BACKGROUND Suicides may be misclassified as accidental deaths in countries with strict legal definitions of suicide, with cultural and religious factors leading to poor registration of suicide and stigma attached to suicide. METHODS The concordance between four different definitions of suicides was evaluated by examining the relationship between pure suicide and accidental death rates, gender...