Psychological autopsy study of suicides by people aged under 35
| Autor: | Brian Faragher, Louis Appleby, Tim Amos, Jayne Cooper |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Poison control Suicide prevention Risk Assessment 03 medical and health sciences Social support Interpersonal relationship 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Injury prevention medicine Personality Humans Interpersonal Relations 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry Social Behavior media_common Social environment 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Suicide England Social Isolation Case-Control Studies Marital status Female Autopsy Psychology |
| Zdroj: | The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science. 175 |
| ISSN: | 0007-1250 |
| Popis: | BackgroundIn the past two decades the suicide rate in young people has risen in the UK and other countries.AimsTo identify the characteristics of people aged under 35 who commit suicide.MethodPsychological autopsy study with case–control design. Cases were 84 suicides and probable suicides (open verdicts). Controls were 64 age- and gender-matched non-suicides obtained through the general practices of the matched cases. Main variables: social, including employment status, marital status and living circumstances; life events and interpersonal difficulties; clinical, including current psychiatric disorder, alcohol and drug misuse, previous self-harm and personality disorder.ResultsA large number of highly significant social, interpersonal and clinical differences between suicides and controls was found. Factor analysis identified two groups of variables within each of the social, interpersonal and clinical domains which were independently linked to suicide, corresponding to: acute, severe mental disorder and chronic disorder of behaviour; rootlessness and social withdrawal; chronic and recent interpersonal problems.ConclusionsA broad prevention strategy is needed to reverse the recent rise in the suicide rate in young people. |
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