I IS with great interest that we read the special issue on “Perspectives on Suicide and Traumatic Brain Injury” and we particularly appreciated the paper by Tsaousides et al. entitled “Suicidal ideation following traumatic brain injury: prevalence rates and correlates in adults living in the community.”1 In this paper, the authors explored the rates of suicidal ideation (SI) in a cohort of 356 ...

background epilepsy is one of the most prevalent chronic neurologic diseases in population. one of the most common disorders in patients with seizure disorders is a psychiatric disease, such as depression, which is most commonly under diagnosed or treated. objectives the presence of the psychiatric disease and consumption of antiseizure medications are believed to be an underlying cause of suic...

OBJECTIVE To study the incidence of suicidal ideation in patients with SLE and the associated risk factors. METHODS Consecutive patients who fulfilled four or more ACR criteria for SLE were recruited. Suicidal thought in the preceding month was assessed by three direct questions. The intensity of suicidal ideation was assessed by the validated Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (BSSI). Socio-de...

BACKGROUND Suicidal behavior is one the most significant mental health problems in the military. Militaries are closed systems that operate in particular situations. Military service is associated with certain stressful conditions. On this basis, there is likely of trauma in the military environment. Measures of suicidal behavior are pathologically complex. A range of biological, psychological,...

BACKGROUND Very few studies have examined the cross-national prevalence of suicidal ideation in the general population or variables associated with it. AIMS To examine the risk factors for suicidal ideas in the general population. METHOD As part of a five-country two stage epidemiological study of depressive disorder (the ODIN study) a random sample of over 12 000 people were screened using...

Bacground: This study aimed the relationship between some demographic and clinical characteristics of suicide attempt with hopelessness, distressing life events prior to the attempt in individuals who attempted suicide and compares the outcomes with healthy volunteers with respect to several sociodemographic variables. Methods: We applied the Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID...

BACKGROUND This study aims to investigate factors related to suicide in a unique clinical population with more chronic psychopathology than many outpatient samples. METHOD One hundred and five adult outpatients were included in the current study. We predicted that higher scores on the resolved plans and preparation (RPP) factor of the Beck Suicide Scale [Beck, A.T., Kovacs, M., Weissman, M., ...