@article{ref1,
title="Attempted suicide: does lethality matter?",
journal="Irish journal of psychological medicine",
year="2021",
author="Doherty, A. M. and Moore, S. and Cobercoran, N. and Malone, K. M.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether high-lethality suicide attempters align to the demographic and clinical features observed in completed suicide in the national and international literature, and whether low-lethality attempters more closely align with the clinical profile of non-attempter ideators. <br><br>METHODS: A retrospective chart review of adult suicide ideators and attempters presenting to an urban tertiary care hospital was performed. Suicide ideators (n = 50) and attempters (n = 50) were coded for variables including demographics and clinical characteristics (e.g. psychiatric diagnosis and previous suicide attempt). <br><br>METHOD and lethality of suicide attempt were coded using the medical Lethality Rating Scale. <br><br>RESULTS: High-lethality attempters were more likely to be younger in age than low-lethality attempters (p = 0.026) and ideators (p = 0.041). The lethality scores of suicide attempts were significantly inversely correlated with age (p = 0.017). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Our study adds to the small but increasing body of literature investigating the characteristics of high-lethality suicide attempters and suggests younger adult age is a risk factor for a high-lethality attempt. Further understanding of this unique group would be aided by widespread agreement on the definition of a high-lethality suicide attempt and longitudinal studies of this cohort.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0790-9667",
doi="10.1017/ipm.2021.50",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2021.50"
}