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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Suicide Attempt"”.
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Experiences following a suicide attempt
A suicide attempt is a very significant and usually disturbing event for the person who makes the attempt, for his or her family, and for clinicians who respond. Moreover, epidemiological studies have established that a suicide attempt is associated with an increased risk of subsequent attempt or …
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Consistency of Self-Reported Suicidal Intent Following a Suicide Attempt
Suicide is a major problem in the U.S., but the empirical basis for assessment of suicidal risk is severely lacking. Critical to understanding the level of risk present after an act of self-harm is the degree to which the self-injuring patient intended to die via the act, which is called the degree …
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Predictors of adherence with follow-up subsequent to a suicide attempt
Suicide attempts are associated with an increased risk of repeat attempts, completed suicide, chronic psychiatric symptoms, and ongoing psychosocial difficulties. Data is lacking in several areas in the field of suicide prevention and it is vital that clinicians identify factors that increase …
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Suicide Attempt and Characteristics of Religiously Affiliated Puerto Rican Adolescents and Young Adults
… identified several risk factors associated with attempted suicide among the general population. Puerto Ricans, in general, and Puerto Rican Seventh-day Adventists (SDAs), in particular, may face unique challenges that are related to their familial, social, and religious environment that may …
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Live Or Die? Exploring the Suicidal Ambivalence Among Suicide Attempt Survivors: a Qualitative Study
Suicide is a major public health concern, particularly among young adults, who have some of the highest suicide rates in the United States. While many studies discuss the risk and protective factors related to suicide, there is limited understanding of the phenomenon beyond these aspects. One such …
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“Will I follow you into the dark?": Effects of celebrity suicide on suicide-attempt rates
… research has shown that mass-media reports of a suicide death predict an increase in suicide deaths, dubbed the Werther effect (Niederkrotenthaler, et al., 2012). Content intended to protect from suicide contagion in mass-media reports of suicide may reduce the Werther effect, described as the …
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Psychosocial factors perpetuating suicide attempt among young adults at selected Psychiatric Hospital, in Gauteng Province, South Africa
… corruption among others. The high number of suicides among young adults in South Africa have attracted the researcher’s attention for study purposes. The research intends to uncover the underlying factors perpetuating suicide among young adults at selected Mental Institution, Weskoppies …
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The Phenomenon of Suicide Attempt by Young Female Suicide Survivors at a Selected Hospital in Thulamela Municipality, Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
… health concern worldwide. Globally, the rate of suicide increased by 60% in the past years. In South Africa, about 9.5 % of nonnatural deaths in young people is due to suicidal behavior, and there are 667 deaths due to suicide every month (Birmingham & Solihull, 2012). Suicide has left a trail of …
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Prehospital care providers' decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the Cape Town Metropole, Western Cape: A survey based on the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002
… The transportation of patients presenting with a suicide attempt who have not yet been formally assessed for involuntary admission poses a particular problem. Aim: To determine the knowledge of prehospital providers with respect to the transport of patients presenting with suicide attempts and the …
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Improving Identification of Suicide Risk Via Routine Screening for Depression and Alcohol Use
Background: Annual rates of suicide have been on the rise for the past two decades in the U.S. In 2017, there were 47,173 confirmed suicide deaths and an estimated 1.4 million suicide attempts. Alcohol use and suicidal ideation are both independently associated with increased risk of suicide …
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A reflexive thematic analysis of the experiences of psychotherapy of adult men with a history of suicidality
Male suicide is an ever-pressing issue that presents a unique challenge to society. The impact of male suicide in the UK is considerable, and for every female suicide death, there are approximately 3.5 male deaths. For every successful suicide attempt, researchers speculate that there are twenty …
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Metabolic alterations in patients with self-inflicted aggressive behaviour
… fluid (CSF-) samples from patients with a recent suicide attempt and plasma samples from a five-hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in women with deliberate self-harm and healthy controls. The main results from the different papers were: I. Women with a recent suicide attempt and major …
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A Survey Examining the Attitudes in a College Population toward Suicide Attempters.
… to gain insight into the attitudes held towards suicide attempt victims amongst a traditional college population. Undergraduate students (n = 360) were administered a survey to assess demographics, suicide ideation levels, and perceptions formed after reading a short suicide attempt report. …
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The Relationship between State-Level Policy and Mental Health among Sexual Minority Youth in the United States
… the prevalence of depression, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and bullying amongst adolescents. State-level policies included whether hate crime laws included sexual orientation as a protected category, and rates of follow-up care after hospital discharge amongst acutely mentally ill youth …
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Suicide Risk Assessment in the Emergency Department Setting
Suicide is a prominent problem that has far-reaching effects. In 2013, 41,149 suicides were reported in the United States, a rate of 13.0 per 100,000. Suicide was the tenth leading cause of death for Americans with someone in the country committing suicide every 12.8 minutes. The World Health …
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From the outside looking in: Sense of belonging, depression, and suicide risk
… its potential utility in refining assessment of suicide risk. Sense of belonging is conceptualized as an individual’s experience of feeling valued, needed, and accepted by people in his or her social environment. The present study utilized the Sense of Belonging Instrument to examine sense of …
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LIFE EVENTS, STRESS AND COPING
… finding and trying new methods for evaluation of suicide risk. The Suicide Assessments Scale, SUAS, and a new self-rating version, SUAS-S were tested. These scales are sensitive to change of suicidality over time, and both of them seem to be valid and reliable suicide rating scales, which might …
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Stress and Suicidal Behavior: A Cognitive, Behavioral, and Biological Integrative Approach
<p>Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in young adults in the United States. Previous research has established distal and proximal life stress as a strong risk factor for suicidal behavior. However, how stress impacts suicidal behavior via interactive cognitive and biological mechanisms …
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Das "Nürnberger Bündnis gegen Depression"
… most dramatic consequences is a big number of suicides. Methods: Within the competence network on depression and suicidality (founded by the German Ministry for Education and Research) a multi-level program was carried out in 2001 and 2002: the “Nuremberg Alliance against Depression”. In the …
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Cognition and Suicide: The Relationship Between Problem-Solving and Suicidal Behavior
… an effort to elucidate the underpinnings of the suicide mode. Early evidence suggests that study of the time period immediately surrounding the suicide attempt may yield important evidence for risk assessment. The current study examined cognitive variables during the time period immediately …
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