Citation

Bradvik L. Arch. Suicide Res. 2007; 11(3): 255-264.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychiatry, Lund University Hospital. Lund. Sweden.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, International Academy of Suicide Research, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13811110701402611

PMID

17558610

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate violent and nonviolent suicidal acts in men and women with severe depression. The records of 98 suicide victims, who had been admitted to the Department of Psychiatry, Lund University Hospital, Sweden between 1956 and 1969, were evaluated and the subjects were monitored up to 1998. The female group displayed a significant linear trend for nonviolent completed suicide after one suicide attempt, and even more significantly, after repeated attempts. A switch from only nonviolent suicide attempts to completed violent suicide was significantly more common in men than in women. These different progressions may contribute to the expected finding that men used violent methods for completed suicide more often than women.

Language: en