Citation

Mehlum L. Mil. Med. 1994; 159(2): 138-141.

Affiliation

HQ Defence Command Norway, Joint Medical Service, Medical Division, Oslo.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8202241

Abstract

In a 20-year, register-based follow-up of a group of 51 young male conscripts who had made a suicide attempt during their service, 2 were found to have committed suicide during the follow-up period. These figures gave a 20-year accumulated suicide mortality of 3.92%, whereas the corresponding value in the cohort of Norwegian males who reached the age of 20 in the period 1968-1972 was 0.40%. In spite of this clear difference, the study indicates that the long-term suicide mortality is relatively low for young suicide-attempters in this type of setting compared to figures from other follow-up studies.

Language: en