Suicide, Attempted
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Suicidal behaviors in mentally retarded patients]

30 Aug 2009 Mental retardation is a common phenomena in general population. Mentally retarded patients have basically weaker adjustment abilities to changing conditions of the day life routines. Since the risk of mental disorders is four times higher among ... Read more...

Combination of electroconvulsive therapy with skin graft surgery for a schizophrenic patient with burns.

30 Aug 2009 We report on the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on a patient with schizophrenia immediately after skin graft surgery for extensive burns. The patient was 22 years old and had been burned in more than 33% of his body because of a suicide ... Read more...

Examining student perspectives on suicidal behaviour and its prevention in Sri Lanka.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Suicidal behaviour, primarily through self-poisoning, is a major public health problem among youth in Sri Lanka. METHODS: This article describes a qualitative study of student perspectives on suicidal behaviour and its prevention. Focus ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Suicide, Attempted'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Twenty five years of poison center experience with propoxyphene overdoses the FDA could not find. 30 Oct 2009
• Toxic sequelae of childhood sexual abuse. 29 Sep 2009
• In search of endophenotypes for suicidal behavior. 29 Sep 2009
• [Suicidal behaviors in mentally retarded patients] 30 Aug 2009
• Combination of electroconvulsive therapy with skin graft surgery for a schizophrenic patient with burns. 30 Aug 2009
• Examining student perspectives on suicidal behaviour and its prevention in Sri Lanka. 30 Aug 2009
• Congenital abnormalities of 88 children born to mothers who attempted suicide with phenobarbital during pregnany: the use of a disaster epidemiological model for the evaluation of drug teratogenicity. 30 Aug 2009
• Histone methylation and decreased expression of TrkB.T1 in orbital frontal cortex of suicide completers. 30 Aug 2009
• Quiet moments. 30 Aug 2009
• What is the pertinent finding and an explanation for the cause? 30 Aug 2009
• Drinking to cope as a statistical mediator in the relationship between suicidal ideation and alcohol outcomes among underage college drinkers. 30 Aug 2009
• Suicide attempts, gender, and sexual abuse: data from the 2000 British Psychiatric Morbidity Survey. 30 Aug 2009
• Factors influencing variability in clinical outcomes from imidacloprid self-poisoning. 30 Aug 2009
• Suicide attempt by ingestion of rotenone-containing plant extracts: one case report in French Guiana. 30 Aug 2009
• Personality subtypes of suicidal adults. 30 Aug 2009
• Emergency: acetaminophen poisoning. 30 Aug 2009
• Paraquat intoxication in subjects who attempt suicide: why they chose paraquat. 24 Aug 2009
• Assisted dying: what's disability got to do with it? 24 Aug 2009
• Toward understanding suicide among youths: results from the White Mountain Apache tribally mandated suicide surveillance system, 2001-2006. 18 Aug 2009
• Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. 9 Aug 2009

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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