Psychological autopsy studies of suicide: a systematic review

By J. Cavanagh, A. Carson, M. Sharpe, S. Lawrie. Psychological Medicine, 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Prevalence of and risk factors for suicide attempts versus suicide gestures: analysis of the National Comorbidity Survey. (2006, background): “These diagnoses, along with psychiatric comorbidity, are among the most consistently supported risk factors for suicide death (Brent, Johnson et al., 1994; Brent et al., 1993; Cavanagh et al., 2003; Cheng et al., 2000; DeLeo et al., 2002; Foster, Gillespie, McClelland, & Patterson, 1999; Henriksson ”
Suicide and Suicidal Behavior (2008, background): “Psychological autopsy studies reveal that 90–95 percent of the people who die by suicide had a diagnosable psychiatric disorder at the time of the suicide (75), although this percentage is lower in nonWestern countries such as China (76, 77).”
The Prevalence of Mental Disorders among the Homeless in Western Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis (2008, background): “While levels of comorbidity of depression are likely to be underreported in homeless persons with psychosis or drug dependence, these estimates suggest that the reported high rates of suicide in homeless people [5,18] may not be mediated through depressive illness, and that other risk factors, such ”
Design of the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) (2013, background): “Because this downsizing is occurring at a time of economic uncertainty in the civilian economy, the number of soldiers leaving the Army involuntarily (i.e. they want to reenlist but are not given an opportunity to do so) will increase as well.”
Cross-National Analysis of the Associations among Mental Disorders and Suicidal Behavior: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys (2009, result): “The finding that approximately half of those who seriously consider killing themselves, and more than half of those making a suicide attempt have a prior mental disorder extends earlier findings from psychological autopsy studies [43] and studies using clinical samples [24,44] that have reported tha”
Non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: diagnostic correlates and relation to suicide attempts. (2006, background): “%) in this study approximates the rate of mental disorders among those engaging in suicidal self-injury, which is 90–95% in most studies (e.g., Moscicki, 1999; Cavanagh et al., 2003).”
Suicidal desire and the capability for suicide: tests of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior among adults. (2008, background): “, Orbach, Mikulincer, King, Cohen, & Stein, 1997). Joiner (2005) proposed that the most direct pathway to an acquired capability is the experience of previous suicide attempts.”
Thwarted Belongingness and Perceived Burdensomeness: Construct Validity and Psychometric Properties of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (2011, background): “%) have diagnosable mental disorders (Cavanagh et al., 2003)— and it is quite possible that the remaining 5% have subclinical variants of mental disorders.”
Social Control and Youth Suicidality: Situating Durkheim's Ideas in a Multilevel Framework (2008, background): “A recent review (Cavanagh et al. 2003) shows that only one out of 22 case-control studies reports findings on religion (Sorri, Henriksson, and Lönnqvist 1996).”