Citation

Hjelmeland H, Nordvik H, Bille-Brahe U, De Leo D, Kerkhof JF, Lonnqvist JK, Michel K, Renberg ES, Schmidtke A, Wasserman D. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2000; 30(4): 295-303.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. heidi.hjelmeland@svt.ntnu.no

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11210055

Abstract

As part of the WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Parasuicide, the level of suicide intent among female and male parasuicide patients from various European regions was compared. From nine regions, a total of 1,212 parasuicide patients, 752 females and 460 males, were included in the study. Although some statistical significant differences in level of suicide intent between the regions and genders were found, the effect sizes of these relationships were so small that the differences have neither theoretical nor practical significance. As far as level of suicide intent is concerned, the WHO study has succeeded in recruiting a relatively homogeneous group of self-harming patients across borders of region, culture, and country.