OBJECTIVE To examine some of the risk factors for late life suicide in Hong Kong Chinese using a case-controlled psychological autopsy approach. METHOD Informants of 70 subjects aged 60 or above who had committed suicide as well as a community sample of 100 elderly controls were interviewed. Subjects and controls were assessed for the presence of mental illness, history of suicide attempt and...

OBJECTIVE This study examined rates of contact with primary care and mental health care professionals by individuals before they died by suicide. METHOD The authors reviewed 40 studies for which there was information available on rates of health care contact and examined age and gender differences among the subjects. RESULTS Contact with primary care providers in the time leading up to suic...

A study of people's reasons for choosing a method for suicide indicated that females are more concerned with quickness, painfulness and disfigurement, but less concerned with the availability of the method. Those choosing guns were more concerned about the quickness of the method and less concerned about disfigurement. These results were discussed for their implications as to whether people wil...

OBJECTIVE To review the research on the epidemiology, risk and resiliency, assessment, treatment, and prevention of late-life suicide. METHOD I reviewed mortality statistics. I searched MEDLINE and PsycINFO databases for research on suicide risk and resiliency and for randomized controlled trials with suicidal outcomes. I also reviewed mental health outreach and suicide prevention initiatives...

BACKGROUND Rates of suicide and undetermined death increased rapidly in Scotland in the 1980's and 1990's. The largest increases were in men, with a marked increase in rates in younger age groups. This was associated with an increase in hanging as a method of suicide. National suicide prevention work has identified young men as a priority group. Routinely collected national information suggeste...

BACKGROUND In mainland China, frequent Internet suicide pacts in recent years have raised strong concerns from several social sectors and the influence of social networks on suicide is constantly growing. AIMS To identify the epidemiological characteristics of media-reported Internet suicide pacts in mainland China. METHOD Our study comprised 62 Internet suicide pacts involving 159 victims ...

BACKGROUND While there is clear evidence of familial influences on suicide, the origin of these is less certain. We have investigated genetic and familial environmental factors by studying the occurrence of suicide in biological and adoptive siblings of adoptees who died by suicide compared to siblings of surviving adoptees. METHOD We used the Danish Adoption Register and Danish population re...

background worldwide, suicide ranks among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-44 years. an estimated 800000 people die by committing suicide annually. objectives to better understand the association between aggressive suicidal attempt and non-aggressive suicidal attempt in patients with suicide attempt in the emergency department. patients and methods a cross-sectional observa...

BACKGROUND Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States. Social media such as Twitter is an emerging surveillance tool that may assist researchers in tracking suicide risk factors in real time. AIMS To identify suicide-related risk factors through Twitter conversations by matching on geographic suicide rates from vital statistics data. METHOD At-risk tweets were filtered from th...