Psychological pain and sociodemographic factors classified suicide attempt and non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents - Bao J, Wan J, Li H, Sun F.
This study aimed to utilize machine learning to explore the psychological similarities and differences between suicide attempt (SA) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), with a particular focus on the role of psychological pain. A total of 2385 middle schoo... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Predictors of non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents with depressive disorder: the role of alexithymia, childhood trauma, and body investment - Cao P, Peng R, Yuan Q, Zhou R, Ye M, Zhou X.
This study analyzes the relationship of alexithymia, childhood trauma, and body investment to non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) behaviors in adolescents with depressive disorder and whether they have predictive and diagnostic value for non-suicidal ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Implementing and evaluating a veterans crisis line quality improvement initiative: the safety planning pilot program - Lauver MG, Podlogar MC, Herbin JJ, Selig M, Muzzey FK, Patelli K, McCarthy JF, Hughes GJ, Stacy M.
The Veterans Crisis Line (VCL) is part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' suicide prevention mission. In 2021, VCL assessed the impact of a pilot implementation project of conducting six-part safety plans (SPs) instead of VCL's usual risk mitigati... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Teenage blues: predictors of depression among adolescents in Nigeria - DadeMatthews A, Nzeakah C, Onofa L, DadeMatthews O, Ogundare T.
BACKGROUND: Depressive disorders, with a prevalence of 15-21%, are among the most common disorders in children and adolescents, and increases the risk of suicide, the second leading cause of death in children aged 10 to 19. AIM: To determine the pr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Annie, Annie! Are you okay? death Masks, war and simulation - Gordetsky JB, Rais-Bahrami S, Rabinowitz R.
In the late 19th century, a beautiful woman was said to have drowned in the River Seine and had a plaster death mask created to capture her beauty. Called L'Inconnue de la Seine (The Unknown Woman of the Seine) and "La Joconde du suicide" (The Mona Lisa of... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
A model for providing psychological support to healthcare leaders and teams in times of crisis - Walker SJ, Ey S, Hedlund S.
OBJECTIVE: Pre-pandemic, the healthcare workforce was already at risk for higher burnout than the general population and, in some roles (e.g., physicians, nurses), at higher risk for clinical distress and suicide. Studies of healthcare workforce well-being... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Death due to electrocution- a rare method of suicide - Bhosale AA, Taware AA, Jadhav VT, Tatiya HS, Bandgar AL, Vaidya HV.
Suicide is de fined as "the act of killing yourself deliberately". Most common methods of committing suicide in India are hanging, followed by poisoning, drowning and self-immolation. While least common methods include consuming sleeping pills, electrocution... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news
Do suicide attempters have a right not to be stabilized in an emergency? - Struc AT.
The standard of care in the United States favors stabilizing any adult who arrives in an emergency department after a failed suicide attempt, even if he appears decisionally capacitated and refuses life-sustaining treatment. I challenge this ubiquitous pra... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Feasibility and acceptability of caring contacts texts for suicide prevention among veterans recently separated from military service - Houtsma C, Raines AM, Kerbrat AH, True G.
The primary purpose of this single-arm mixed-methods pilot trial was to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of a text message-based version of Caring Contacts, Caring Contacts texts (CC-t), among veterans recently separated from... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Moderating role of functioning level on the association between suicidal ideation and delayed-onset post-traumatic stress disorder - Kim JM, Kim JW, Kang HJ, Jang H, Kim JC, Chun BJ, Lee JY, Kim SW, Shin IS.
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between suicidal ideation at baseline and the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in individuals who have experienced physical injuries, with a specific focus on how this relatio... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Self-harm presentations to hospital trauma centre emergency departments during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic - Gordon M, Jayakumar N, Atzema C, Korczak DJ, Kennedy S, Schaffer A, Goldstein B, Orser BA, Yee D, Fiksenbaum L, Choi LHL, Phillips A, McFarlan A, Kreller M, Freedman C, Tanenbaum B, McDowall D, Ceniti A, Sinyor M.
The COVID-19 pandemic raised concerns regarding increased suicide-related behaviours. We compared characteristics and counts of Emergency Department (ED) presentations for self-harm, an important suicide-related outcome, during versus prior to the pandemic... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Poor psychosocial safety climate increases teleworker vulnerability to suicidal ideation - Kikunaga K, Nakata A, Tondokoro T, Dollard M.
OBJECTIVE: Suicide is the leading cause of death among the working-age population in Japan. Unlike task-level occupational factors, the relation between suicidal ideation and psychosocial safety climate (PSC), a crucial organization-level factor to protect... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Transition to suicide ideation and attempt among emergency room patients - Yurdad ön C, Bruffaerts R, Sabbe M, Demyttenaere K, Peeters E, Gericke F, Voorspoels W.
BACKGROUND: Suicidal thoughts and behaviours (STB) represent a persistent and serious public health problem, and suicide is among the leading causes of death worldwide. We focus on predictors of transition rates and time courses through the STB spectrum am... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Positive mental health accounts for the relationship between insomnia symptoms and suicide-related outcomes - Brailovskaia J, Teismann T, Margraf J.
Insomnia symptoms have been shown to be associated with suicide ideation/behavior. However, the underlying mechanism is unclear and studies on protective factors that might mitigate the association between sleep-related problems and suicide ideation/behavi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
Sociodemographic and clinical risk factors for suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in functional/dissociative seizures and epilepsy: a large cohort study - Faiman I, Hodsoll J, Jasani I, Young AH, Shotbolt P.
BACKGROUND: People with functional/dissociative seizures (FDS) are at elevated suicidality risk. OBJECTIVE: To identify risk factors for suicidality in FDS or epilepsy. METHODS: Retrospective cohort study from the UK's largest tertiary ment... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
