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Assessing Legal Strains and Risk of Suicide Using Archived Court Data
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Cook, Thomas Bradley; Davis, Mark S. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2012
Relatively little is known about legal entanglements and suicide risk. This matched case-control study estimated the risk of suicide associated with legal strains using online court archives, a novel source of exposure data. Court records linked to suicide deaths (N = 315), controls (N = 630), and unintentional injury and poisoning deaths (N =…
Descriptors: Prevention, Accidents, Suicide, Archives
Method of Suicide in the Mentally Ill: A National Clinical Survey
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Hunt, Isabelle M.; Swinson, Nicola; Palmer, Ben; Turnbull, Pauline; Cooper, Jayne; While, David; Windfuhr, Kirsten; Shaw, Jenny; Appleby, Louis; Kapur, Navneet – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2010
Comparisons of psychiatric patients who die by suicide using different methods are scarce. We aimed to establish the methods of suicide used by those who are currently or have recently been in contact with mental health services in England and Wales (N = 6,203), and describe the social and clinical characteristics of suicides by different methods.…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Suicide, Patients
Age and Gender Differences in the Use of Various Poisoning Methods for Deliberate Parasuicide Cases Admitted to Loghman Hospital in Tehran (2000-2004)
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Ghazinour, Mehdi; Emami, Habib; Richter, Jorg; Abdollahi, Mohammad; Pazhumand, Abdolkarim – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2009
Different methods of poisoning used by individuals with the diagnosis of parasuicide admitted to the Loghman Hospital, Tehran, from 2000 to 2004 were investigated, with particular focus on gender and age differences. Drugs, pesticides, and other agricultural chemicals (women: 12.7%, men: 9%) were the most commonly used methods. In males, the…
Descriptors: Females, Narcotics, Hospitals, Poisoning
The Association between Life Events and Suicide Intent in Self-Poisoners with and without a History of Deliberate Self-Harm: A Preliminary Study
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Crane, Catherine; Williams, J. Mark. G.; Hawton, Keith; Arensman, Ella; Hjelmeland, Heidi; Bille-Brahe, Unni; Corcoran, Paul; De Leo, Diego; Fekete, Sandor; Grad, Onja; Haring, Christian; Kerkhof, Ad J. F. M.; Lonnqvist, Jouko; Michel, Konrad; Renberg, Ellinor Salander; Schmidtke, Armin; van Heeringen, Cornelius; Wasserman, Danuta – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2007
The associations between life events in the 12 months preceding an episode of self-poisoning resulting in hospital attendance (the index episode), and the suicide intent of this episode were compared in individuals for whom the index episode was their first, episode and in individuals in whom it was a recurrence of DSH. Results indicated a…
Descriptors: Females, Suicide, Correlation, Self Destructive Behavior
Suicides in the Developing World: Case Study from Pakistan
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Khan, Murad Moosa; Hyder, Adnan Ali – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2006
There are no official data on suicide from Pakistan, a conservative South Asian Islamic country with traditionally low suicide rates. Both suicide and attempted suicide are illegal acts, as well as socially and religiously condemned, making research in this area difficult. Recent reports suggest an increase in suicide rates. In this study, police…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Suicide, Developing Nations, Case Studies
Nonfatal and Fatal Self-Harm Injuries among Children Aged 10-14 Years--United States and Oregon, 2001-2003
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Vajani, Madhavi; Annest, Joseph L.; Crosby, Alex E.; Alexander, Janice D.; Millet, Lisa M. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2007
Fatal and nonfatal injuries due to suicidal behavior among younger adolescents are of growing concern for many communities. We examined the incidence and patterns of these injuries among persons aged 10-14 years using three databases, two national and a third from Oregon. Suffocation and firearm gunshot were the leading external causes of suicide;…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Prevention, Injuries, Public Health
Environmental and Personality Similarities in Case Histories of Suicide and Self-Poisoning by Children under Ten.
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Corder, Billie F.; Haizlip, Thomas M. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1984
Research on suicide in latency age children is reviewed and case histories of two nine-year-old children who suicided by shooting themselves and one seven-year-old who died by self-poisoning are presented. Similarities in environmental and family histories and in personality variables are discussed. (Author/BL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Elementary Education, Environmental Influences
Socio-Cultural Features and Sex Profile of the Individuals with Serious Suicide Attempts in Southeastern Turkey: A One-Year Survey
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Yasan, Aziz; Danis, Ramazan; Tamam, Lut; Ozmen, Sehmus; Ozkan, Mustafa – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2008
Our objective was to elucidate potential causes of higher rates of suicide attempts in females compared to males in southeastern Turkey through a 1-year survey. Gender-related differences observed in 96 subjects who attempted suicide by poisoning for the first time were as follows: in comparison to male, females were predominantly within the age…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Suicide, Foreign Countries
The Hospital Management of Fatal Self-Poisoning in Industrialized Countries: An Opportunity for Suicide Prevention?
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Kapur, Navneet; Turnbull, Pauline; Hawton, Keith; Simkin, Sue; Mackway-Jones, Kevin; Gunnell, David – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2006
Suicide by self-poisoning is a prevalent cause of death worldwide. A substantial proportion of individuals who poison themselves come into contact with medical services before they die. Our focus in the current study was the medical management of drug self-poisoning in industrialized countries and its possible contribution to suicide prevention.…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Risk Management, Poisoning, Suicide
Ethnic Differences in Self Poisoning: A Comparative Study between an Asian and White Adolescent Group.
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Biswas, Sheela – Journal of Adolescence, 1990
Conducted retrospective case note study comparing various characteristics of self-poisoning between White (N=34) and Asian adolescents (N=38). Results showed "Culture Conflict" was implicated in slightly more Asian female self-poisonings as compared to males, Asian females used "non ingestants" significantly more than White…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict
Deliberate Self-Poisoning in Adolescence: Why Does a Brief Family Intervention Work in Some Cases and Not Others?
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Harrington, Richard; Kerfoot, Michael; Dyer, Elizabeth; McNiven, Faye; Gill, Julia; Harrington, Valerie; Woodham, Adrine – Journal of Adolescence, 2000
Examines some of the reasons for the differences between depressed and non-depressed adolescent suicidal attempters in their response to a brief family intervention. Determined that efficacy of the family intervention in reducing suicidal ideation within the nondepressed sub-group was probably not mediated by changes in variables such as family…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Counseling Effectiveness, Depression (Psychology), Family Counseling