in-patient care are a period of extremely high risk of self-harm and suicide. Studies in the UK, Denmark, Singapore and Hong Kong show that the risk of suicide is up to 200 times higher than that of the general population around this time. Risk declines rapidly in the subsequent weeks before reaching a relatively steady state at around 6 months after discharge. In England approximately 5% of al...

BACKGROUND In Switzerland, non-medical right-to-die organisations such as Exit Deutsche Schweiz and Dignitas offer suicide assistance to members suffering from incurable diseases. OBJECTIVES First, to determine whether differences exist between the members who received assistance in suicide from Exit Deutsche Schweiz and Dignitas. Second, to investigate whether the practices of Exit Deutsche ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between the availability of paracetamol and its use for overdose and suicide. DESIGN Analysis of routinely collected information on time trends for paracetamol suicides, non-fatal overdoses, and sales. SETTING England and Wales and France. RESULTS There were strong correlations between trends in paracetamol sales in the UK and trends in non-fatal ...

Although the rate of suicide is low in Muslim countries, there is evidence that it is increasing integrated analysis was made of data on suicide attempts (nonfatal and fatal) from studies carried out in the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1981 to 2007. Of 54 published studies concerning suicide, 48 (covering 26 768 cases of attempted suicide) satisfied the inclusion criteria. The weighted mean ra...

Sleep disturbances are associated with suicide-related thoughts and behaviors, and the incidence of sleep concerns and suicide has increased recently in the US. Most published research exploring the sleep-suicidality relation is focused on select sleep disorders, with few reviews offering a comprehensive overview of the sleep-suicidality literature. This narrative review broadly investigates th...

background: suicide is one of the most important health problems in communities and knowledge of rates and epidemiology of it in any region could help in control and preventing programs .longitudinal registration of annual death data has been employed in this study. methods: in an analytical and cross sectional study pre conducted forms of suicide was engaged to register data , crude and specif...

Post-mortem studies document alterations in the central noradrenergic system in suicide. However, studies of non-fatal suicide attempts have, thus far, found no consistent relationship to the noradrenaline metabolite 3-methoxy-4-hydroxphenylglycol (MHPG) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). We therefore conducted a prospective study of CSF MHPG and suicidal acts in major depression and bipolar depress...

BACKGROUND Suicide reduction is government strategy in many countries. We need to quantify the connection between non-fatal self-poisoning and eventual suicide. AIMS To determine mortality after an episode of self-poisoning and to identify predictors of death by any cause or by suicide. METHOD A retrospective single-group cohort study was undertaken with 976 consecutive patients attending a...

OBJECTIVE Bipolar disorder is associated with high risk of self-harm and suicide. We wanted to investigate risk factors for attempted suicide in bipolar patients. METHOD This was a cohort study of 6086 bipolar patients (60% women) registered in the Swedish National Quality Register for Bipolar Disorder 2004-2011 and followed-up annually 2005-2012. Logistic regression was used to calculate adj...

BACKGROUND In cases of untreated schizophrenia, the patients' entourage often does not recognize the psychotic symptoms of the patient and the possibility that the patient may attempt suicide. The aim of this study was to investigate the discrepancies between the subjective experiences and observed behaviors in near-fatal suicide attempters with untreated schizophrenia. METHODS A semi-structu...