Citation

Mento C, Presti EL, Mucciardi M, Sinardi A, Liotta M, Settineri S. Community Ment. Health J. 2015; 52(5): 582-588.

Affiliation

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10597-015-9933-x

PMID

26399518

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the variables shown to be linked to serious suicide attempts. Cases requiring emergency admission to intensive care were collected from medical records of the University Hospital in Messina (Italy) for the years 2006-2010. 107 cases of serious attempted suicide were examined, 39 of which ended in the death of the patient. The results showed the following variables to be linked highly significantly (P < 0.01) and have good nominal association (V > 0.30) with a fatal suicidal attempt: the year of the attempt, deceased father, history of physical illness prior to hospitalization and method used to carry out the suicide attempt. These results confirm the severity and the multidisciplinary importance of this phenomenon.

Language: en