Citation

Pitchot W, Paquay C, Ansseau M. Rev. Med. Liege 2008; 63(5-6): 396-403.

Vernacular Title

Le comportement suicidaire: facteurs de risque psychosociaux et psychiatriques.

Affiliation

Service de Psychiatrie et de Psychologique medicale, CHU Sart Tilman, Liege, Belgique.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Hopital De Baviere)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18669211

Abstract

Suicide and attempted suicide are currently considered as an epidemic disease. According to WHO, in the world, one million of individuals commit suicide each year. Every 40 seconds, one person commits suicide and every 3 seconds, one person makes a suicide attempt. Over recent years, the risk of suicide and suicide attempt has considerably increased. Several risk factors have been identified: they are psycho-social, psychopathological, genetic or biological. Suicide is determined by the interaction of all these factors. The purpose of this paper is to present recent data from the literature concerning psychosocial and psychopathological risk factors.

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