@article{ref1,
title="Psychosocial and psychiatric risk factors for suicide. Case-control psychological autopsy study",
journal="British journal of psychiatry",
year="2000",
author="Cheng, A. T. and Chen, Tsai-Hwei and Chen, Chiao-Chicy and Jenkins, R.",
volume="177",
number="",
pages="360-365",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Few studies of suicide have simultaneously examined the individual and combined effects of psychosocial and psychiatric risk factors. AIMS: To do so in a representative sample of suicides. METHOD: A case-control psychological autopsy was conducted among 113 consecutive suicides and 226 living controls matched for age, gender, ethnicity and area of residence in Taiwan. RESULTS: Five major risk factors (loss event, suicidal behaviour in first-degree relatives, ICD-10 major depressive episode, emotionally unstable personality disorder and substance dependence) were found to have independent effects on suicide from multivariate conditional logistic regression analysis. CONCLUSIONS: Effective intervention and management for loss event and major depressive episode among emotionally unstable subjects with a family tendency of suicidal behaviour, frequently also comorbid with alcohol or other substance dependence, may prove to be most effective for suicide prevention in different populations.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-1250",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}