Suicide, Attempted - Ethnology
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

The Cedar Project: correlates of attempted suicide among young Aboriginal people who use injection and non-injection drugs in two Canadian cities.

30 May 2009 OBJECTIVES: Aboriginal leadership and families are deeply concerned about the rate of suicide attempt among their young people. The objectives of this study were to (a) describe the prevalence of suicide attempt and (b) to describe correlates of ... Read more...

Self-mutilation and suicidal behaviour in Sami and Norwegian adolescents: prevalence and correlates.

30 May 2009 OBJECTIVES: To study the prevalence and psychosocial and ethnocultural correlates of self-mutilation and/or suicidal behaviour in Indigenous Sami and majority Norwegian adolescents in north Norway. STUDY DESIGN: A cross-sectional questionnaire ... Read more...

Prevalence of suicidal behaviour among indigenous Sami in northern Norway.

30 May 2009 OBJECTIVES: To summarize knowledge about suicidal behaviour among indigenous Sami living in northern Norway. STUDY DESIGN: This summary is based on data from a register-based follow-up study (Study I) and the North Norwegian Youth Study (Study ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Suicide, Attempted - Ethnology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The Cedar Project: correlates of attempted suicide among young Aboriginal people who use injection and non-injection drugs in two Canadian cities. 30 May 2009
• Self-mutilation and suicidal behaviour in Sami and Norwegian adolescents: prevalence and correlates. 30 May 2009
• Prevalence of suicidal behaviour among indigenous Sami in northern Norway. 30 May 2009
• Development of a Chinese version of the Suicide Intent Scale. 30 May 2009
• Do specialist community public health nurses assess risk factors for depression, suicide, and self-harm among South Asian mothers living in London? 29 Apr 2009
• Acculturation, familism and mother-daughter relations among suicidal and non-suicidal adolescent Latinas. 26 Apr 2009
• Predictors of multiple suicide attempts among suicidal black adolescents. 30 Mar 2009
• 12-month and lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts among black adolescents in the National Survey of American Life. 27 Feb 2009
• Differences in characteristics of Asian American and white problem gamblers calling a gambling helpline. 30 Jan 2009
• Immigration and suicidal behavior among Mexicans and Mexican Americans. 13 Jan 2009
• Repetition of suicide-related behavior: a study of the characteristics, psychopathology, suicidality and negative life events in Iran. 30 Dec 2008
• Deliberate self-harm in the emergency department: experience from Karachi, Pakistan. 30 Dec 2008
• Suicidal behavior in four ethnic groups in the Hague, 2002-2004. 30 Dec 2008
• Impulsive but fatal self-poisoning with pesticides among South Asians in Nickerie, Suriname. 30 Dec 2008
• Suicidal behavior by burns in the province of Fars, Iran. 30 Dec 2008
• Characteristics of suicidal behavior in a Turkish sample. 30 Dec 2008
• Suicidality in a sample of Arctic households. 29 Nov 2008
• Characteristics of a French African Caribbean epidemiological psychiatric sample with a history of suicide attempt. 29 Nov 2008
• Increased risk of suicide attempt in mood disorders and TPH1 genotype. 29 Oct 2008
• Immigration generation status and its association with suicide attempts, substance use, and depressive symptoms among latino adolescents in the USA. 13 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Suicide, Attempted'

Definition: The unsuccessful attempt to kill oneself.

Descriptor UI: D013406

Alternative terms: Suicide, Attempted; Attempted Suicide;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; prevention & control; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.145.126.980.875.600; I01.880.735.856.600;

History Note: 75