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Guiding principles for the implementation of a standardized psychological autopsy to understand and prevent suicide: a stakeholder analysis

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
BackgroundAround 700,000 people die by suicide each year. While the global number of suicides declined over the last decade, the rates remained unchanged in the Netherlands.
Elias Balt, Karlijn Heesen, Arne Popma, Renske Gilissen, Saskia Mérelle, Daan Creemers   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Restricting access to a suicide hotspot does not shift the problem to another location. An experiment of two river bridges in Brisbane, Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2014
Background: Restricting access to lethal means is a well‐established strategy for suicide prevention. However, the hypothesis of subsequent method substitution remains difficult to verify.
Chi‐kin Law, Jerneja Sveticic, Diego De Leo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Police Views of Suicidal Persons and the Law Criminalizing Attempted Suicide in Ghana: A Qualitative Study With Policy Implications

SAGE Open, 2017
The penal code of Ghana condemns suicide attempt. The present study sought to explore the views of the police on persons who attempt suicide and the law criminalizing the act.
Joseph Osafo, Charity S. Akotia, Emmanuel N.-B. Quarshie, Kofi E. Boakye, Johnny Andoh-Arthur   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

British medical journal, 2019
Objectives To use the estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 to describe patterns of suicide mortality globally, regionally, and for 195 countries and territories by age, sex, and Socio-demographic index, and to describe temporal trends ...
M. Naghavi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Suicide Ideation and Attempts in a Pediatric Emergency Department Before and During COVID-19

Pediatrics, 2020
In this study, we examined rates of positive suicide-risk screen results in a pediatric ED from January to July 2020 as compared with similar screens conducted between January and July 2019.
R. Hill, Katrina A. Rufino, Sherin R. Kurian, Johanna E. Saxena, K. Saxena, L. Williams   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Detecting changes in help seeker conversations on a suicide prevention helpline during the COVID− 19 pandemic: in-depth analysis using encoder representations from transformers

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Preventatives measures to combat the spread of COVID− 19 have introduced social isolation, loneliness and financial stress. This study aims to identify whether the COVID-19 pandemic is related to changes in suicide-related problems for help ...
Salim Salmi, Saskia Mérelle, Renske Gilissen, Rob van der Mei, Sandjai Bhulai   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of Suicide in Japan During the COVID-19 Pandemic vs Previous Years.

JAMA Network Open, 2021
Importance There are concerns that suicide rates may have increased during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Objective To assess whether suicide rates in Japan increased in April through November 2020 compared with previous years ...
Haruka Sakamoto, M. Ishikane, Cyrus Ghaznavi, P. Ueda   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Suicide and attempted suicide

Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry, 2014
Abstract not availableDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sljpsyc.v5i2.7824Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry Vol 5(2):37 ...
Shehan Williams, Thilini Rajapakse
openaire   +4 more sources

Understanding the Complex of Suicide in Depression: from Research to Clinics

Psychiatry Investigation, 2020
Objective Amongst psychiatric disorders, major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most prevalent, by affecting approximately 15–17% of the population and showing a high suicide risk rate equivalent to around 15%.
L. Orsolini, R. Latini, M. Pompili, G. Serafini, U. Volpe, F. Vellante, M. Fornaro, A. Valchera, C. Tomasetti, S. Fraticelli, M. Alessandrini, R. La Rovere, S. Trotta, G. Martinotti, M. Di Giannantonio, D. de Berardis   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sociodemographic and psychosocial risk factors of railway suicide: a mixed-methods study combining data of all suicide decedents in the Netherlands with data from a psychosocial autopsy study

BMC Public Health
Background Railway suicide has profound implications for the victims and their family, and affects train drivers, railway personnel, emergency services and witnesses.
Elias Balt, Saskia Mérelle, Arne Popma, Daan Creemers, Karlijn Heesen, Nikki van Eijk, Isa van den Brand, Renske Gilissen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source