A 2-Year Psychological Autopsy Study of Completed Suicides in the Athens Greater Area, Greece

Autor: Paraschakis, Antonios Michopoulos, Ioannis Christodoulou, Christos Koutsaftis, Filippos Lykouras, Lefteris Douzenis, Athanassios
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
Popis: Objective To study the characteristics of a sample of suicide victims from the Athens Greater Area using the psychological autopsy method for the first time in Greece. Methods We studied all recorded cases of completed suicide for the 2-year time period November 2007 October 2009 collecting data from the victims’ forensic records as well as from the completion of a psychological autopsy questionnaire. Results 335 persons were recorded as suicide victims. We contacted relatives of 256 victims interviewing those of 248 of them (96.9%). The differences regarding sex, marital and employment status between our sample and the general population were statistically significant (p
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