Suicidal Behavior: Strategies for Prevention at the Individual and Population Levels

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Two of the works report on the use of population or surveillance databases to identify clinical risk factors that may aid in the recognition of patients at risk for suicide attempts. Bhaskaran and colleagues address a question often confronted by clinicians evaluating suicide attempters: Does the fact that a patient expresses disappointment or even anger at having survived an attempt have clinical significance? Using the Suicide Assessment Form in Emergency Psychiatry (SAFE) Database, the authors evaluated 922 suicide attempters’ reactions to surviving the attempt and the effect of the attempt method on risk of reattempt in the next 6 months.