BACKGROUND We aimed to estimate the prevalence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt among prisoners in New South Wales, Australia; and, among prisoners reporting suicidal ideation, to identify factors associated with suicide attempt. METHODS A cross-sectional design was used. Participants were a random, stratified sample of 996 inmates who completed a telephone survey. The estimated popul...

BACKGROUND The agitation in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) after suicide attempts is common and an important problem. OBJECTIVE To establish whether we can predict agitated patients among suicide attempt patients in ED. METHODS This is a cross-sectional observational study of adult suicide attempt events in ED. Information was collected prospectively on a specially des...

ôbjective: ïmpulsivity appears to play an important role in suicidal behavior. the aim of this cross-sectional study was to compare the impulsivity, substance abuse, and family/friends history of suicide attempt between suicide-ideated and non suicide-ideated university students. methods: the research population consisted of all the students of the üniversity of ïsfahan in the academic year of ...

background& objectives :    the epidemiology of suicide plays a  significant role in the identification of mental health in the society.the present study was carried out to determine the demographic characteristics and mental state evaluation among victims with suicidal attempt in tabriz ( in 2001 ) . materials and methods :in this cross - sectional study 301 patients (170 females and 131 males...

OBJECTIVE Attempted suicide is the strongest known predictor of completed suicide. However, suicide risk declines over time after an attempt, and it is unclear how long the risk persists. Risk estimates are almost exclusively based on studies of less than 10 years of follow-up. METHOD The authors followed a cohort of 100 consecutive self-poisoned patients in Helsinki in 1963, for whom forensi...

The validity of self-reported suicide attempt information is undermined by false positives (e.g., incidences without intent to die), or by unreported suicide attempts, referred to as false negatives. In a sample of 1,385 Austrian adults, we explored the occurrence of false positives and false negatives with detailed, probing questions. Removing false positives decreased the rate of suicide atte...