Citation

Lester D. Crisis Interv. 1970; 2(Suppl 2): 46-49.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1970, Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service)

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Abstract

To justify their existence, suicide prevention centers often present figures to show how prevalent suicidal behavior is and now important a problem it presents for the community. Frequently these figures are very rough approximations and guesses, and the estimates are often stated in such a way that the listener feels that they are hearing a biased selection of the data. This feeling is one that I had recently, and so I decided to compute for myself the incidence of suicidal behavior in the community.

There are many ways of summarizing the prevalence of suicidal behavior and data from each of these ways will be presented.

Language: en