Switching suicide methods in order to achieve lethality: a study of Greek suicide victims

Autor: Antonios Paraschakis, Lefteris Lykouras, Athanassios Douzenis, Ioannis Michopoulos, Filippos Koutsaftis, Christos Christodoulou
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Death studies. 38(6-10)
ISSN: 0748-1187
Popis: This article focused on the relation between the method of last attempted suicide and the method used during the subsequent completed suicide. Using the method of psychological autopsy, the authors studied all suicide cases from the Athens Greater Area during a 2-year period. Twenty-four percent of the victims had history of previous suicide attempts. The majority of the suicide attempters switched to a different method (p
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