ArticleBMC psychiatry2015
Violent and non-violent methods of attempted and completed suicide in Swedish young men: the role of early risk factors.
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- Suicide methods and severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2025Review
- Uncovering key biopsychosocial risk factors in non-violent suicide attempts: evidence from a Hungarian cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Violent suicide methods across life stages - a national population-based register study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Assessing the Risk Factors of Violent and Non-violent Suicide Attempt Methods: A Population-based Cross-sectional Study.Iranian journal of medical sciences · 2024Article
- Trends in suicide mortality rates in the Republic of Cyprus between 2004 and 2020: changes in age, gender and suicide method.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- The burden of attempted hanging and drowning presenting to hospitals in Ireland between 2007 and 2019: a national registry-based study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- The role of premeditation in suicide: Identifying factors associated with increased planning among suicide decedents.Journal of clinical psychology · 2023Article
- Is It Correct to Consider Caustic Ingestion as a Nonviolent Method of Suicide? A Retrospective Analysis and Psychological Considerations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- A comprehensive study of medically serious suicide attempts in France: incidence and associated factors.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2023Article
- Investigating the Clinical Profile of Suicide Attempters Who Used a Violent Suicidal Means.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Accelerated epigenetic aging in suicide attempters uninfluenced by high intent-to-die and choice of lethal methods.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is a paucity of studies on the role of early risk factors for the choice of methods for violent suicide attempts. Adolescent risk factors for the choice of violent or non-violent methods for suicide attempts and the risk of subsequent suicide were studied using a longitudinal design.
methodsA national Swedish cohort of 48 834 18-20-year-old young men conscripted for military service from 1969 to 1970 was followed through official registers during a 37-year period. Two questionnaires concerning their psychosocial background were answered by each conscript. Cox proportional hazard regression analyses were used to estimate the risk for different methods of attempted suicide and later suicide.
resultsA total of 1195 (2.4 %) men had made a suicide attempt and of these, 133 (11.1 %) committed suicide later. The number of suicide victims among the non-attempters was 482 (1 %). Half of the suicides occurred during the same year as the attempt. Suicide victims had earlier onset of suicidal behaviour and had more often used hanging as a method of attempted suicide than those who did not later commit suicide. The early risk factors for both violent and non-violent methods of suicide attempt were quite similar.
conclusionViolent suicide attempts, especially by hanging, are associated with a clearly elevated suicide risk in men and require special clinical and public health attention. The early risk factors related to the choice of either a violent or a non-violent suicide attempt method are interlinked and circumstantial factors temporally close to the suicide attempt, such as access to a specific method, may partly explain the choice of method.
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