The changing pattern of attempted suicide in Edinburgh, 1962-67.

Aitken, R. C. B.; Buglass, Dorothy; Kreitman, Norman

doi:10.1136/jech.23.2.111

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“…A 10 % annual increase has been reported for Edinburgh from 1962 to 1967 (Aitken et al (1969)) and a comparable mean annual rise has been found in the same town from 1968 to 1974, the changing features in the more recent years being a fall in the rates for men, a levelling off for women and the greatest increases for the young, for men in the lower social classes and for divorced women ). Comparable rises have been reported in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( Smith & Davison (1971)) and in Oxford (Bancroft et al (1975)) as well as in the United States (Weissmnn (1974)) and in Australia (Mills et al (1974)).…”

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Predictive scales for parasuicide repetition. Further results

Siani

Garzotto

Tansella

et al. 1979

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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A six-item predictive scale for parasuicide repetition was retested on a second sample of Italian parasuicides. All the patients firstever admitted after a deliberate self-harm to the psychiatric department of a general hospital during the period April 1973-March 1976 were interviewed and followed-up after an interval of 1 year. The scale showed the same predictive power found in the first sample (1970-73) and gave a range of probability of repetition within 1 year of 15% at a score of 0 up to 44.8% at the scores 3, 4, 5, and 6. Moreover it discriminated between repeaters and non-repeaters at a significant level. Only two items (diagnosis of sociopathy and change of domicile in the last year) of the five items which discriminated repeaters from non-repeaters in the first study were still significantly associated with repetition, while four additional items (previous in-patient psychiatric treatment; previous parasuicide resulting in hospital admission; unemployment; criminal record) appeared as new discriminating factors. In spite of these changes the rate of repetition remained constant over the years at around 26%.

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Predictive scales for parasuicide repetition. Further results

Siani

Garzotto

Tansella

et al. 1979

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…It was also found that positive contacts were significantly more numerous for probands using self-poisoning rather than selfinjury. It is noteworthy that the rapid rise in admission rates for attempted suicide in Edinburgh over the last five years (Aitken et al, 1969) has been entirely due to increasing self-poisoning: it is thus possible that the rise is at least partly due to caseto-case spread.…”

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“…(Buglass, Dugard, and Kreitman, 1968). How far the patients are typical of their areas has been explored elsewhere (Philip, and McCulloch, 1966;McCulloch and Philip, 1967;Buglass et al, 1968 especially epidemic hysteria. It was also found that positive contacts were significantly more numerous for probands using self-poisoning rather than selfinjury.…”

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Attempted Suicide in Social Networks

Kreitman

Smith

Tan

1971

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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“…Where the suicidal be¬ havior apparently serves the purpose of generating an ac¬ tive response from the environment, a low rating of in¬ tent has been inferred. 1 High ratings of intent have correlated significantly with depth of depression." Sim-ilarly, where suicidal behavior provokes desired effects (defined as the patient's efforts to effect modifications in the attitudes or a change in his relationships with per¬ sons important to him through making a suicide at¬ tempt),7 the severity of the suicidal behavior in terms of self-damage tends to be minimal.…”

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