Citation

Combalbert N, Bourdet-Loubère S. Evol. Psychiatr. (Paris) 2006; 71(4): 685-695.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.evopsy.2006.07.007

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The topic of this article is to probe into the specificities of suicide by jumping. This means of suicide hasn't been studied much and isn't well known yet. We reviewed the international scientific literature so as to take an in-depth look at this type of auto-aggressive action and highlight the characteristics of the subjects likely to commit suicide by jumping. We thus focus on the available epidemiological data and risk factors associated to suicide jumping. We also describe the prevention strategies most often evoked to deal with this public health issue, which are respectively about improving safety on the identified suicide sites and providing medical and psychological care to individuals likely to commit suicide by jumping. This meta-analysis presents our critical analysis of the methodological limits in the studies exposed. We provide further hints for researching this field of study; they're based on both the taking into account of variables that could be risk factors for this particular means of suicide and the evaluation of the efficiency for the preventive measures used. © 2006 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

Language: fr

Keywords

adolescent; Risk factors; adult; Prevention; human; Epidemiology; suicide; Suicide; female; male; evaluation; accident prevention; aggression; Jumping; risk factor; article; clinical research; psychological aspect; psychologic assessment; jumping; preventive health service; biosafety