BACKGROUND/AIM Urgent psychiatric help and effective psychotherapeutic treatments are required soon after revival of a person after suicide attempt by self-poisoning. The aim of this article was to define an assessment of actual psychological characteristics of a person after suicide attempt by self-poisoning in order to apply psychotherapeutic crisis intervention after suicide attempt, as well...

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 obs...

Suicide is a leading cause of death among adolescents globally, and body weight is also a recognized reason for adolescent suicide. Therefore, we investigated the association between weight control behaviors (WCB) and suicide ideation and attempt, focusing on inappropriate weight control measures. We used data from the 2014 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey, representing a total of 35,...

AIM To study the prevalence of psychoactive substance use disorder (PSUD) among suicidal adolescents, psychoactive substance intoxication at the moment of the attempt, and the association between PSUD at baseline and either occurrence of suicide or repetition of suicide attempt(s). METHODS 186 adolescents aged 16 to 21 y hospitalized for suicide attempt or overwhelming suicidal ideation were ...

objective: suicide represented 1.8% of the total global burden of disease in1998 and it will increase to 2.4% in 2020. we performed a cross sectional study to assess the prevalence of suicide ideation, attempt and its associated factors. method: we designed a cross sectional study in mahan and bardsir cities, kerman province, iran. based on the multistage cluster sampling, 860subjects aged 15 a...