ReviewTranslational psychiatry2018
Psychosocial characteristics as potential predictors of suicide in adults: an overview of the evidence with new results from prospective cohort studies.
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- Identifying subtypes of suicidality: a second larger consensus study in emergency clinical psychiatric practice.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in People on the Autism Spectrum.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Inpatients with a history of suicide attempts in routine clinical care exhibit specific characteristics regarding sociodemographics, life events, personality, and symptom burden.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- The Impact of Alcohol-Related Presentations to Emergency Departments on Days with a Public Holiday or Sporting Event: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Prehospital and disaster medicine · 2024Article
- Childhood cognitive ability and self-harm and suicide in later life.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Educational Approaches Using Simulation for Psychiatric Risk Assessment: a Scoping Review.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2024Article
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- A first study on the usability and feasibility of four subtypes of suicidality in emergency mental health care.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
In this narrative overview of the evidence linking psychosocial factors with future suicide risk, we collected results from published reports of prospective studies with verified suicide events (mortality or, less commonly, hospitalisation) alongside analyses of new data. There is abundant evidence indicating that low socioeconomic position, irrespective of the economic status of the country in question, is associated with an increased risk of suicide, including the suggestion that the recent global economic recession has been responsible for an increase in suicide deaths and, by proxy, attempts. Social isolation, low scores on tests of intelligence, serious mental illness (both particularly strongly), chronic psychological distress, and lower physical stature (a marker of childhood exposures) were also consistently related to elevated suicide rates. Although there is some circumstantial evidence for psychosocial stress, personality disposition, and early-life characteristics such as bullying being risk indices for suicide, the general paucity of studies means it is not currently possible to draw clear conclusions about their role. Most suicide intervention strategies have traditionally not explored the modification of psychosocial factors, partly because evidence linking psychosocial factors with suicide risk is, as shown herein, largely in its infancy, or, where is does exist, for instance for intelligence and personality disposition, the characteristics in question do not appear to be easily malleable.
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